Emery joins the Blue Hose family after spending the last three seasons coaching defensive line at Myers Park and prior to that working at Providence Day School working with the linebackers. He spent 13 seasons as the head coach at Western New England University as the school first full-time head coach. Prior to Western New England, Emery spent time on the staff at Johns Hopkins University. He got his coaching start at Stafford High School, Enfield High School and Kenyon College beginning in 1994.
He totaled 86 wins over his time at Western New England where he spent time coordinating offensive, defensive and special teams' units. Emery spent time coaching the defensive backs, outside linebackers and quarterbacks in particular throughout his head coaching time. He was named the New England Football Conference Coach of the Year twice and the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston New England D3 Coach of the Year in 2015.
He was a two-time New England Football Conference Boyd Division Coach of the Year along with the New England football Writers D2/D3 Coach of the Year. The teams he coached were ranked in the top seven in New England five times while participating in the NCAA Playoffs four times. He coached six CoSida Academic All-Americans.
Prior to joining the Western New England staff, Emery served as an assistant coach at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., for seven seasons. He was the defensive coordinator the last four years and associate head coach in 2004.
Emery was selected the AFCA Division III Assistant Coach of the Year in 2004 and named to the "Hot Coaches" list by American Football Monthly. In his final season at John Hopkins, the Blue Jays posted a 9-2 record, shared their third straight Centennial Conference (CC) Championship, and won the ECAC Division III Southeast crown with a 26-23 victory over Waynesburg (Pa.) College.
Before arriving at Johns Hopkins, Emery served as an assistant football coach working with the defensive line at Kenyon College in Ohio for two seasons.