Jeff Hancock has been named the 28th head football coach at Highland Community College.
Hancock looks to continue the surge the Highland football program has enjoined with a winning record 4 of the last 6 years and a Top 20 ranking in the final NJCAA polls in 3 of the last 4 years.
Hancock is where he began his coaching career in the 1990s.
"Highland is where I got my start with my first "full time" coaching position," Hancock said. "I have many fond memories of my time there with the friendships I made and what I learned as a young coach from Coach's (Marty) Allen and (Greg) Delzeit. When this job opened I knew I had to apply."
Hancock comes to Highland after serving as an offensive analyst for the 2019 season at Abilene Christian University, a team that posted a 5-7 record competing the Southland Conference. Prior to his time at Abilene Christian, Hancock has held multiple coaching positions climbing the coaching ladder.
Hancock was offensive coordinator at McMurry University for the 2017 and 2018 seasons and was offensive coordinator/recruiting coordinator at Siena Heights University, an NAIA program that he helped start that program. He also had coaching stints at Adrian College (Mich.), Grand Valley State University, University of Saint Mary in Kansas and Lane College.
While at Adrian, he worked as offensive coordinator, wide receivers coach and special teams coordinator. In 2008 he helped Adrian finish in the Top 20 in NCAA Division II in rushing offense with 231.1 yards per game while averaging 27.8 points per game.
At Grand Valley State Hancock helped the team win the 2005 NCAA DII National Championship as the tight ends coach. The Lakers offense amassed more than 5,000 total yards that 2005 season.
In his three years at USM in Leavenworth, Kansas, he was offensive coordinator for the Spires and led them to a Top 10 offense in NAIA in 2002. He was co-Offensive coordinator at Lane College in 2001 a NCAA DII program. While he also served as an offensive line coach at Louisiana Tech University (FBS).
Hancock has experience at the Junior College level also coaching at New Mexico Military Institute and Highland. While at NMMI he coached a group that ran for 4,300 yards, setting an NJCAA record and finished the year ranked No. 10 in the nation, winning the Empire Bowl. While at Highland he was an offensive assistant under Marty Allen for one season coming from a graduate assistant position at Eastern Michigan University.
He also served as a high school coach at Vidalia High School (LA) for three seasons as head coach, along with coaching offense and defense early in his coaching career at Willow Run High School and Romulus High School.
Highland football is coming off a 6-4 season in which they finished ranked 20th in the NJCAA.
Hancock earned his Bachelor's degree in psychology from Eastern Michigan University and his Master's degree from Louisiana Tech in exercise science, while receiving his Louisiana teaching certification from Louisiana College.