Staff

Front Office

Philip G. Evans
General Manager

Phil Evans, who also serves as President and General Counsel of the Revolution's parent entity, SportsQuest, LLC, is the Richmond Revolution's General Manager. As GM, Evans will oversee football and business operations for the Revolution.

Prior to joining SportsQuest and the Richmond Revolution, Evans ran Evans Sports and Media Group, a full-service consulting firm in the minor league sports and media industries. At ESMG, Evans has assisted clients with the evaluation and acquisition of minor league sports teams, the development of a one hundred acre sports and residential community, which is projected to include no fewer than 85 townhomes and three multi-purpose fields and the creation of a new company that aggregates and produces faith-based and inspirational content for distribution over the world wide web.

Before founding ESMG, Evans spent five seasons as President of the NBA Development League. As President, Evans oversaw all D-League operations and reported directly to NBA Commissioner David Stern. During Evans' tenure, the league grew from eight NBA owned-and-operated teams in the Southeast to 14 privately owned team spread throughout the Southwest, West and Midwest. In fact, in just four years, Evans negotiated the sale of 17 NBA D-League expansion teams, including the first sale of an NBA D-League expansion team to an NBA team (the Los Angeles Lakers).

While he ran the league, Evans saw more than 150 players, coaches, referees, athletic trainers and front office personnel make the jump from the D-League to the NBA. Evans also played a role in developing an affiliation system for the D-League pursuant to which NBA D-League teams became directly affiliated with specific NBA teams beginning with the 2005-06 season. In two seasons with the new system, 30 NBA teams assigned 53 NBA players to their D-League affiliates on 80 occasions.

Evans also transformed the NBA D-League from a money losing operation into a business, which generated an annual operating profit for the NBA, while increasing the visibility of the league through the development of an NBA D-League All-Star game held in February 2007 in conjunction with the NBA's All-Star festivities, and through increased television exposure. During the 2006-07 season, NBA TV aired 60 D-League games; up from 35 in 2005-06. NBA TV also aired This Week in the D-League, a bi-weekly program, which featured highlights, interviews and player features. In addition, beginning in February 2007, ESPN2 aired five half-hour D-League all-access specials.
From 2001-02, Evans served as the D-League's Director of Legal and Business Affairs, where he drafted and negotiated contracts on behalf of the league and each of its teams, including arena licensing agreements, player/coach contracts and local sponsorship agreements. Evans also developed the league's policies and procedures, and served as general counsel to Arena Ventures, the league's joint venture with Clear Channel Entertainment.

Evans came to the D-League before its inaugural season after serving three years with the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), most recently as Executive Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs. While at the CBA, Evans oversaw the league's day-to-day operations, and supervised the league's legal, human resources, finance, marketing, communications and basketball operations departments.

Prior to his experience in professional basketball, Evans worked for International Family Entertainment, Inc. where he provided legal services to the marketing, advertising, sales and human resources divisions of the company's The Family Channel and FiT TV cable television networks. He began his legal career in 1988 as an associate at Latham & Watkins.

Evans earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1988 and a bachelor's degree in History and Economics from the University of Virginia in 1984.

Evans and his wife Tammy are the parents of four boys, twins Alex and Logan, Ryan and Henry.

Charlie Hildbold
Vice President of Operations and Assistant General Manager

Charlie Hildbold begins his first season as the Richmond Revolution's Vice President of Operations and Assistant General Manager.

Raised in the Pittsburgh, PA area, Hildbold is a 2005 graduate of Grove City College in Grove City, PA, earning a Bachelor of Science in Marketing. He is currently completing his Masters' of Science in Sports Leadership at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

Prior to joining the Revolution, Hildbold spent two seasons as the Director of Marketing and Promotions for the Odessa Roughnecks of the IFL. During his time in Odessa he oversaw all game operations, and had a hand in all sponsor advertising creation. He worked the 2008 IFL season with current IFL Commissioner Tommy Benizio, prior to the merging of the Intense Football League with the United Indoor Football League.

Before moving to Texas, Hildbold was the Director of Ticketing and Box Office Manager for the 2007 South Atlantic League Champion Columbus Catfish. It was during his time in Columbus that he helped to increase ticket sales by over 13% and increase ticket revenues by over 20% from the previous season.

He moved to Columbus, Georgia after a holding the position of Account Executive and Merchandise Manager for the Pensacola Ice Pilots of the ECHL. Throughout the 2006-2007 season he posted merchandise sales of over $47,000 and sold almost $30,000 of group tickets.

Hildbold began his professional career in the Outbound Sales Department of the Pittsburgh Pirates during the 2006 All Star Season. Working part-time during the season he was able to sell over $45,000 worth of season and group tickets and was one of the highest performing individuals in the department.

Hildbold currently lives in the Shockoe Slip area of Downtown Richmond, and spends his free time cheering for the Steelers, Pirates and Penguins.

Coaching Staff

Steve Criswell
Head Coach

Steve Criswell began his coaching career in 1984, coaching receivers for Henrico High School in Richmond, VA. The next year he became the Assistant Offensive Line coach and the following year he took over both the Offensive and Defensive Lines.

In 1989, Criswell began four-year stints at Virginia's Petersburg, Bridgewater's Turner Ashby and Richmond's Hermitage High Schools before making the move to the indoor game after the 2000 season.

In 2001, Criswell coached the Fullbacks and Linebackers for the Richmond Speed under Head Coach Richard Davis. That year, the Speed appeared in the Arena Cup, af2's championship game.

After 3 years with the Speed, Coach Criswell became the FB/LB's coach for the Cape Fear Wildcats, also of the af2, serving with Head Coach Chris Siegfried.

In 2005, Steve came home to join the Richmond Bandits of the AIFL, coaching the Offensive Line, Defensive Line, Linebackers and Fullbacks compiling an 11-1 record and winning the inaugural AIFL Championship. 2006 saw the Bandits finish with a 12-2 record during the regular season.

2007 and 2008 were spent on Will McClay's staff for the AFL Dallas Desperados as the Offensive Line and Special Teams Coach. In 2007, the Desperados set an AFL record by compiling 15 regular season wins. In all, 2 Fullbacks, 3 Linemen and 2 Special Teams players received All-Arena honors during the 2 years of Criswell's tutelage.

During his 8 year indoor career, teams in which he has been on staff have compiled an overall record of 97-33 (.746) and qualified for post season play 7 of 8 years.

Brent Williams
Offensive Coordinator

Brent-Williams Coach Williams is a 1992 Graduate of Henrico High School where he played for Coaches Criswell, Trott and Jarvis while sharing the field with Coach Jones. He graduated in 1997 from Howard University, playing football and baseball.

Coach Williams returned to Richmond to coach at Atlee High School for Coach Trott in 1997, where he coached Billy Parker, Zuriel Smith and Richard Rodgers. In 1998 and 1999 he was the Offensive Coordinator at Henrico High School and was promoted to Head Coach in 2000 where he coached VA AAA state player of the year Aaron Alexander. From 2000 to 2003 Williams coached Wide receivers and Quarterbacks for the Richmond Speed. In 2005 he was named Offensive Coordinator for the AIFL champion Richmond Bandits and was promoted to Head Coach in 2006 when they went 12-2.

Billy Jarvis
Defensive Coordinator

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Jarvis comes to the Revolution following a successful career as an Athletic Director, Head Coach, and Defensive Coordinator at the high school, college and professional levels.

Jarvis also spent time as an Assistant Coach and Head Coach for Division II and Division III all stars over a period of 5 years at the East Coast Bowl Game in Petersburg, VA. Coaching since 1980, Jarvis has been a Head Coach at 5 area high schools over a 17 year period.

Tim Jones
Receivers

Tim Jones joins the Revolution while also currently serving as Receivers Coach at Henrico High School and John Rolfe Middle School in Richmond, as well as running the East End Youth Football Association. In 2006, Tim was an Assistant Coach with the Richmond Bandits, working with their receivers. Prior to joining the Bandits coaching staff, Tim was a standout player with the Richmond Speed, playing from 2000-2003 and serving as a team captain from 2001-2003.

Brian Edmonds
Running Backs

Brian-Edmonds

Edmonds will be serving with the Revolution as the Running Backs coach, a position previously held with the Richmond Bandits (2006). Edmonds played professionally for the Carolina Panthers of the NFL, the Nashville Kats of the AFL and the Richmond Speed (2000-2003).

He was a three year starter at Fullback during his time at Virginia Tech. He was a team captain his senior year, and ran for over 1,200 yards with 18 touchdowns over his four years at Tech.

John Trott
Defensive Secondary

John-Trott Coach Trott will be handling a very talented Secondary for the Revolution, and has spent most of his life in Richmond coaching or playing football. A former standout player and eventual Head Coach at Henrico High School, Trott has coached with a number of local football teams.

He was Defensive Backs Coach for the Richmond Speed (2001-2002), a 3-time East Coast Bowl coach, Trott began his coaching career as an assistant at Highland Springs High School in 1975. He then went on to be Head Coach at Henrico High School (1989-1990) and a member of the Henrico High School Athletic Hall of Fame, and Head Coach at Atlee High School (1991-1999).