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Having already attained a wealth of coaching experience, including three seasons as assistant head coach for nearby Saint Augustine's, Jonathon Vines joined the football staff at UNC Pembroke in 2019 as the program's first director of football operations.
 
Vines has more than 15 years of coaching experience, and comes to Pembroke after serving the last three seasons as assistant head coach at Saint Augustine's in Raleigh. He also has previous stints on the staffs of a pair of National Football League (NFL) teams as well.
 
A graduate of East Carolina, Vines served on the football operations staff and was a development assistant for the Pirates amid his last three years in Greenville. He attained a similar stint with the San Francisco 49ers from 2005-07, before returning to the Tar Heel State in 2007 as a part of the staff at UNC Chapel Hill.
 
Following a successful three-year stint in Chapel Hill that saw the Tar Heels make a trio of appearances in postseason bowl games, Vines served as a graduate assistant coach at nearby North Carolina Central during the 2011 and 2012 seasons, before returning to the NFL.
 
Vines earned his bachelor's degree in public relations from East Carolina in 2006.