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Jermaine Gales joined the Golden Lions football staff as the offensive coordinator in spring of 2018 and was named Associate Head Coach in 2020.

Last season, the Golden Lions ranked third in the SWAC and 17th in the FCS in total offense, averaging 443.4 yards per game. UAPB had eight games of at least 400 yards total offense, including four games of 500+ yards total offense. The season was highlighted by gaining 645 yards (331 passing / 314 rushing) in a 52-34 win at Alabama A&M, the first of back-to-back 50 point games of the season (53 vs. Langston).  

In 2018, Gales' unit overcame a series of injuries to post the third-ranked offense in the SWAC, averaging 423.5 yards per game, including a pair of 500-yard total offense games.

Prior to UAPB, Coach Gales was at North Carolina Central University as wide receivers coach for two seasons.

Coach Gales had two stints at Mars Hill University at the Lions' wide receivers coach, first from 2006-09 and then from 2013-15.

In between his Mars Hill stops, Gales spent three seasons (2010-12) as associate head coach and offensive coordinator at Saint Augustine's University in Raleigh, North Carolina. While service as offensive coordinator with a focus on running backs (2010-11) and quarterbacks (2012), he engineered record-breaking offensive performances. The Falcons set the modern era school record by averaging 28.3 points per game in 2010, the same season they won the Pioneer Bowl for the program's first postseason victory. In 2012, Coach Gales' offensive unit broke the same record with a scoring average of 30.5 points per game.

Coach Gales started his coaching career at his alma mater, Southern Arkansas University, coaching the wide receivers for three seasons (2003-05).

He was a two-year letterman as a wide receiver at Mt. San Antonio College before transferring to SAU in 1996. He started for two seasons at SAU and helped the Muleriders to the 1997 Gulf South Conference championship.

Gales earned his bachelor's degree in biological science at Southern Arkansas in 2002. While working as a graduate assistant at SAU, he received his Master of Education degree in Kinesiology.