Marvin Lewis Wife, Children, Family, Ethnicity, Net Worth, Biography ·

18 May 2024, 00:00

Marvin Lewis is an NFL head coach with the Cincinnati Bengals, he has coached the team since 2003. Prior to taking over as head coach of the Bengals, he was defensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens from 1996 to 2001 , during which he helped the team win Super Bowl XXXV.

Biography (Ethnicity)

Lewis was born in McDonald, Pennsylvania on September 23, 1958 to an African American couple, Vanetta and Marvin Lewis Sr. His name is Marvin Ronald Lewis. Her deceased father worked in a steel mill and her mother is a registered nurse who later became a nurse practitioner.

Marvin is one of his parents, three children, he has two sisters. Her father, Marvin Lewis Sr., died in 2014 at the age of seventy-eight. Lewis loved football from an early age and he had the opportunity to express his love for the sport at Fort Cherry High School where he played with the school football team as a guard and later as a quarter.

He was also on the wrestling team and played baseball during the summers. After high school, he decided to continue playing football at Purdue University before earning a scholarship to Idaho State University, where he played college football.

Lewis played at linebacker and won the All-Big Sky Conference Honors for the third straight year. He got his first degree and his masters from Idaho. He was inducted into the Idaho State University Sports Hall of Fame in 2001, and in 2012 he was named Alumnus of the Year.

Coaching career

It was during his master’s degree in Idaho that Lewis decided to take up coaching after the school football team made him an offer. This is how he began his coaching career at Idaho State as a graduate assistant before serving as the team’s linebackers coach for four years (1981-1984).

During his time with the team, they won the NCA Division I-AA Championship. Lewis would later serve as an assistant coach at Long Beach State University from 1985 to 1986; he held the same position at the University of New Mexico from 1987 to 1989 and at the University of Pittsburgh from 1990 to 1992.

He began his NFL coaching career in 1992 as a coaching intern with the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs. That was before the Pittsburgh Steelers hired him as the team’s linebackers coach. He was part of the Steelers team that lost Super Bowl XXX.

In 1996, the Cleveland Browns (now Baltimore Ravens) hired Marvis as their defensive coordinator and he remained on the team (1996-2001). He then held the same position at Washington Redskins before becoming an assistant head coach.

Marvin Lewis landed his first head coaching job in 2003 when the Cincinnati Bengals hired him as a replacement for Dick LeBeau, he has remained in the franchise to this day (fifteen seasons). He led the team back to back to 8-8 finishes in 2003 and 2004 respectively.

In 2005, the Bengals recorded their first winning season as well as their first AFC North Division title in 15 years. He led the team to 5 consecutive playoff appearances between 2011 and 2015.

Lewis became the first Cincinnati Bengals coach to be named Associated Press Coach of the Year after Paul Brown. He also holds the Bengals head coach’s record for recording the highest wins.

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His net worth

For someone who coached for almost two decades later, his annual salary should be worth the time and effort he put into his career. According to Celebrity Net Worth, the trainer brings home $4.5 million a year and his net worth is currently estimated at $14 million.