Bio

Marcus Woodard was named eSports head coach at Dallas College Cedar Valley in September 2022.

In the fall of 2025, Woodard coached Aaban Khan to the National Junior College Athletic Association eSports FC 26 national title. Abu won the championship series 3-2 over Trinidad State College. He went 10-1. It is the fourth national champ under Woodard. Wayne Lee advanced to the Madden 26 semifinals. 

In the fall of 2024, Cedar Valley's Cade Ferguson was the National Junior College Athletic Association eSports Madden 25 Tier 1 national runner-up. He posted a 10-1 season. In the spring of 2025, Aaban Khan advanced to the NJCAAe FC 25 nationals after winning a regional title. He was 9-1.

Woodard helped lead Khoi Nguyen to a pair of NJCAAe national titles in 2023-24. Nguyen won the FC 24 Tier 1 National Championship in the spring of 2024. He captured the FIFA Tier 3 National Championship in the fall of 2023.  

In the fall of 2022, Woodard coached Aahil Ajani to the National Junior College Athletic Association eSports NBA 2K Fall Open title. In the spring of 2023, Ajani advanced to the NBA 2K Spring Open semifinals. 

Woodard spent the 2022 spring season as the esports coach at Dallas College Mountain View. While with the Lions, Ajani advanced to the NBA 2K Spring Finals in the first year of Dallas College's esports existence.

Prior to Dallas College, Woodard served as the assistant coach of the Hornets Venom GT of the Charlotte Hornets in Charlotte, North Carolina. There, he prepared and implemented game strategies and basketball analytics, supervised practices and provided leadership and direction relevant to the NBA 2K League. 

For two years, he worked as the league director of Esposure, a Duncanville, Texas-based global esports technology company, organizing tournaments. He was responsible for content creation of videos used in social media marketing purposes. He also shoutcasted tournaments with an emphasis on NBA 2K pro-am and professional leagues.