The Saskatchewan Roughriders have hired Corey Mace to be the team's next head coach. Mace takes to the field during CFL pre-season football action in Calgary, Friday, May 31, 2019.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
REGINA – The Saskatchewan Roughriders have hired Corey Mace to be the team’s next head coach, the team announced Thursday.
Mace spent the last two seasons as defensive co-ordinator for the Toronto Argonauts, helping the team to a Grey Cup in 2022 and a 16-2 record this past season.
He succeeds Craig Dickenson as Saskatchewan’s head coach. The Riders announced Dickenson would not have his contract renewed on Oct. 23 after Saskatchewan went 6-12 and missed the playoffs for a second consecutive season.
Dickenson had been the Riders head coach since 2019.
The 37-year-old Mace, from Port Moody, B.C., also won two Grey Cups with the Calgary Stampeders, once as a player (2014) and once as a defensive line coach (2018), before joining the Argos.
Mace played for the Stampeders from 2010 to 2015 before retiring and coaching the defensive line. He became the Argos DC in 2022.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 30, 2023.
