Primary Recruiting Areas: Massachusetts, New Hampshire 

Joe Clancy '13 will be serving in his third season as quarterbacks coach and his second as the passing game coordinator of the Merrimack College football program in 2019-20.

The former All-American quarterback has had an immediate impact during his first two seasons with the coaching staff. In 2018, he guided the Northeast-10 Conference's Rookie of the Year in current rising sophomore Christian Carter, who became the program's first major end-of-year award winner since 2016. Carter was a New England Football Writers' Gold Helmet Award recipient, a three-time NE10 Rookie of the Week and one-time NE10 Offensive Player of the Week. He ranked fourth in the NE10 in passing touchdowns (16) and had the fewest interceptions (3) among all quarterbacks in the league that attempted at least 100 passes, finishing with the best touchdown-to-interception ratio league-wide. 

A year prior, Clancy helped graduate transfer student CJ Scarpa '18 rank second in the conference in passing yards per game (258.8) and third in touchdown passes (18). Merrimack, as a team, has ranked second and third in 2018 and 2017, respectively, in passing yards per game. 

The 2013 Merrimack College alum returned to campus following stints with a number of Arena Football League (AFL) franchises, as well as a in the Swedish Superserien and the Fall Experimental Football League (FXFL). Clancy started his pro career with  the Örebro Black Knights, leading them to a second-place finish in the league, before signing on with the Blacktips of the FXFL for the fall of the 2014 season. Then, after his first AFL stint with the San Jose SaberCats in February of 2015, he joined the Los Angeles KISS that spring. 

The former Warrior was a two-time Northeast-10 Conference Offensive Player of the Year and all-conference first team selection and was set a number of school and conference single-season and career records. He wrapped up his career with 9,308 passing yards in 38 games, finishing 812-for-1,1274 (63.7 career completion percentage) with 89 touchdowns, ranking first in program history in career passing yards, completions and touchdowns.

At the NE10 level, he ranks first in career completions, second in career passing yards and third in career touchdowns. He became the first player in conference history to pass for 4,000 yards in a single season in 2015, during which he also was named a BSN Honorable Mention All-American and the Gridiron Football Club of Greater Boston's Co-Offensive Player of the Year, as well as a New England Football Writers All-New England Team selection and a Daktronics All-Super Region I Second Team selection.