Perez Boulware
Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers
 

Boulware brings nine years of collegiate coaching to Shaw University; the last seven hailing from North Carolina Central University.  From 1999-2002, he coached linebackers under Head Coach Rudy Abrams and was retained by Head Coach Rod Broadway at NCCU.  During those four seasons, a linebacker led the team in tackles three times.
 

 In 2003, he coached the defensive line and returned to the linebacker position coach in 2004.  A native of Thomasville, NC, Boulware played two seasons (1993-94) as inside linebacker at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before his football career was shortened by the discovery of a spinal cord abnormality. 

 He remained on the sideline as a student coach for two seasons under former Coach Carl Tarbush, working with linebackers and defensive linemen.  He is a 1997 graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill with a B.A. degree in Organizational Communication and he started his coaching career in 1997 at Livingstone College as Linebackers Coach.  He served two seasons (1997-98) and the Blue Bears won the CIAA Championship both seasons.