Former Clemson Standout has New Coaching Job
By: Staff Report January 17, 2024

A former Clemson standout has a new coaching job.

Navy announced Wednesday that Jay Guillermo has joined the Midshipmen football staff from Mercer.

Guillermo will be an offensive line coach alongside Tommy Laurendine, who previously coached the fullbacks.

Guillermo had joined the Mercer staff after the conclusion of the 2023 season, during which he served as East Tennessee State’s offensive line coach.

A former national champion as a team captain at Clemson, Guillermo spent the 2022 season as a graduate assistant on Tony Elliott’s staff at Virginia.

Prior to arriving in Charlottesville, Guillermo served as the tight ends coach at Western Carolina for an abbreviated spring 2021 season. He spent the 2021 campaign as the offensive line coach at Carson-Newman, and began his coaching career an offensive graduate assistant at Georgia State in 2019.

As a player at Clemson from 2012-16, Guillermo was a four-time ACC Offensive Lineman of the Week and twice received All-ACC accolades at center along the Tigers’ offensive line. He twice played in College Football Playoff national title games. In 2016, Guillermo graced the watch list for the 2016 Dave Rimington Award which is presented each year to the top center in college football.

Guillermo captained the Clemson football team his final two years as a collegian and was a key part of the 2016 national championship squad.

The Maryville, Tenn., native earned his bachelor’s degree in sociology from Clemson in 2016. He and his wife, Ava, are the proud parents of a daughter, Luna, and are expecting their second child in February.