Bio

The 2024 season marks David May’s first on staff at Butler. He will coach the Grizzly tight ends as well as being the offensive pass game coordinator and special teams coordinator.

May comes to Butler after spending the 2023 season coaching the wide receivers for the NJCAA D1 national champion Iowa Western Reivers. Five of May’s receivers were named ICCAC All-Region while LJ Fitzpatrick was named to the ICCAC All-Conference team with 345 receiving yards and four touchdowns in seven games played. May’s receivers group had three players that held NCAA D1 offers while that group helped Reiver quarterback Hunter Watson be named first team All-ICCAC and All-Region. He also assisted with special teams and helped organize and run the Iowa Western Youth Football Camps.

Prior to the year at Iowa Western May spent the 2022 season as the wide receivers coach and special teams coordinator at Southwestern Oklahoma State University (NCAA D2). He coached two All-Great American Conference selection receivers as the Bulldogs averaged 31 points per game. SWOSU finished 4-7 earning the most wins for the program since 2016. Three of May’s receivers finished top-10 in the GAC in receiving yards. The special teams unit had an impressive season under May’s tutelage with the Bulldogs having three GAC Special Teams Players of the Week. The punt return unit ranked first in the GAC with three returns for a touchdown as well as three blocked punts. May also served as academic coordinator as the team posted a 3.15 GPA.

May was the running backs coach and run game coordinator at New Mexico Highlands (NCAA D2) for the 2020 and 2021 seasons, his first full time coaching position. In 2021 the NMHU run game ranked third in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference with 1,698 rushing yards and nine touchdowns. Two of the running backs he mentored finished in the top 10 in rushing.

Prior to NMHU, May served from June 2018 through January 2020 as an offensive student assistant at University of the Incarnate Word (NCAA FCS), his alma mater.

In his second year on staff he helped guide UIW to five wins, breaking several of the program’s records including pass completions, pass completion percentage, all-purpose yards, and total points. During this time, he helped mentor a rushing attack that tallied the most Rushing Yards in a single game with 402 yards versus Texas Southern, during this game the Cardinals also set a program record for total yards in a game with 840. In May’s first season with the Cardinals he helped guide UIW to the best season in program history ending in a Southland Conference Championship and the first playoff appearance in program history in the first year under a new staff. The Cardinals were 1-10 the previous year.

A native of League City, Texas, May graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Incarnate Word in 2019 and earned a master’s degree in Education at SWOSU in 2022.