Picking out a career highlight from his days as a linebacker for NC State would seem to be an easy question for Freddie Aughtry-Lindsay \u201906. It has to be when he scored two touchdowns during a 2003 game against UConn, including one when he returned an interception 56 yards to win the game in the final seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Aughtry-Lindsay is a team-first sort of guy, so he favors the 2002 season when the Wolfpack defeated Notre Dame in the Gator Bowl to finish with an 11-3 record. Or the 2004 season, when Aughtry-Lindsay was part of the top-ranked defense in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So it\u2019s no surprise that Aughtry-Lindsay moved into coaching once his playing days were over. After working as an assistant coach at schools such as Elon, Campbell and N.C. Central, Aughtry-Lindsday rejoined the Wolfpack coaching staff in 2020 (having worked as a graduate assistant for the team from 2008\u201310). He is in charge of the nickel backs in the defensive secondary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was always kind of a coach, even when I was a player,\u201d he says. \u201cI was always the guy that would lead, and want to understand the game plan in more depth. I always thought like a coach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aughtry-Lindsay, 40, loves being back at his alma mater and wearing the red and white again. \u201cTo be able to come back here and give back is a dream,\u201d he says. \u201cI want to give this university everything that I can give, because it gave me a lot.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to his duties on the field and in recruiting, Aughtry-Lindsay teaches a leadership class for freshmen players. It\u2019s a reflection of his belief that coaching is about more than helping players learn the proper technique. \u201cI want them to be a better person and a better football player,\u201d he says. \u201cI love seeing them develop in all aspects of their life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"\n\n\n\n\n
Picking out a career highlight from his days as a linebacker for NC State would seem to be an easy question for Freddie Aughtry-Lindsay \u201906. It has to be when he scored two touchdowns during a 2003 game against UConn, including one when he returned an interception 56 yards to win the game in the final seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Aughtry-Lindsay is a team-first sort of guy, so he favors the 2002 season when the Wolfpack defeated Notre Dame in the Gator Bowl to finish with an 11-3 record. Or the 2004 season, when Aughtry-Lindsay was part of the top-ranked defense in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So it\u2019s no surprise that Aughtry-Lindsay moved into coaching once his playing days were over. After working as an assistant coach at schools such as Elon, Campbell and N.C. Central, Aughtry-Lindsday rejoined the Wolfpack coaching staff in 2020 (having worked as a graduate assistant for the team from 2008\u201310). He is in charge of the nickel backs in the defensive secondary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was always kind of a coach, even when I was a player,\u201d he says. \u201cI was always the guy that would lead, and want to understand the game plan in more depth. I always thought like a coach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aughtry-Lindsay, 40, loves being back at his alma mater and wearing the red and white again. \u201cTo be able to come back here and give back is a dream,\u201d he says. \u201cI want to give this university everything that I can give, because it gave me a lot.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to his duties on the field and in recruiting, Aughtry-Lindsay teaches a leadership class for freshmen players. It\u2019s a reflection of his belief that coaching is about more than helping players learn the proper technique. \u201cI want them to be a better person and a better football player,\u201d he says. \u201cI love seeing them develop in all aspects of their life.\u201d<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Wolfpack football star Freddie Aughtry-Lindsay \u201906 relishes the chance to coach new generations of NC State players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":2160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"views\/single-immersive.blade.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/default-immersive-post-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{\"showAuthor\":true,\"showDate\":true,\"showFeaturedVideo\":false,\"backgroundColor\":\"red_400\",\"subtitle\":\"Former Wolfpack football star Freddie Aughtry-Lindsay \u201906 relishes the chance to coach new generations of NC State players.\",\"displayCategoryID\":5,\"caption\":\"Photograph courtesy of NC State Athletics.\"}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[109,443,449],"_ncst_magazine_issue":[],"class_list":["post-2088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-athletics","tag-football","tag-freddie-aughtry-lindsay"],"displayCategory":{"term_id":5,"name":"Best Bets","slug":"best-bets","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":52,"filter":"raw"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"_ncst_magazine_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_ncst_magazine_issue?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}