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Knox College

Knox College Athletics
 2 East South Street Galesburg, IL 614014999
Division 3 Illinois Midwest
Private Small Competitive team
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Kevwe Akpore

Kevwe Akpore, formerly assistant men’s soccer coach at Knox, was named head men’s soccer coach in August of 2022.


Coach Akpore is no stranger to the Prairie Fire soccer program, and has been a leader in the Galesburg soccer community for more than three decades. He has at different times in the last 30 years been named as assistant coach and head coach for the women's program, and head coach for the men's program.


Coach Akpore rejoined the Prairie Fire athletics coaching staff months after a very successful and historic year as head men’s soccer coach at Carl Sandburg College, where he left with a school-record 34 victories in four years of leading the program. In the 2021 season, Sandburg won a school-record 16 games; 16-5 overall, and ended the season ranked No. 12 in the country, appearing in the national rankings each week. The Chargers also ranked as high as 7th nationally, won the first-ever Arrowhead Conference Men's Soccer Championship in the program's history, won the first NJCAA Region title in the program's history, and assured the program's first appearance at the NJCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship. Coach Akpore was named NJCAA Region IV Coach of the Year for the 2021-2022 season.


While at Sandburg, Coach Akpore was an adjunct professor of law enforcement. He is a retired U.S. Army veteran with multiple tours of duty in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and more, and is a retired executive with the State of Illinois corrections system.


Coach Akpore holds a B.A. with two minors, in military science, and industrial technology. He also holds a postgraduate diploma in police executive administration, a masters degree in manufacturing engineering, and a masters degree in public safety.

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Victor Dantas

A native of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Dantas came to the USA in 2015. He graduated from Carl Sandburg College in 2018 with his associate in arts, then transferred to Western Illinois University to get a bachelor’s in Supply Chain Management in 2020.


Dantas also owns Galesburg Soccer Exchange, which is a soccer academy for internationals seeking to learn English and play soccer in the USA.


Dantas joined the Sandburg coaching staff in 2018, and along with coach Akpore, quickly developed Sandburg into one of the top NJCAA programs in the country; winning the first region title in program history, the first-ever Arrowhead Conference men’s soccer championship, and made its first appearance at the NJCAA Division II Men’s Soccer Championship. In 2021, Dantas was promoted to head soccer coach.


In 2023, Dantas joined the Prairie Fire with hopes to contribute to the continued success of the soccer program.

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