Dean Cokinos (born c. 1968) is an American football coach. He has held assistant coaching or head coaching positions with UMass Boston, Austin Peay, West Alabama, Noris Rams, Munich Cowboys, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers, San Angelo Stampede, Nashville Kats, Tennessee Valley Vipers, Alabama Vipers, Georgia Force, Alabama Hammers, New Orleans VooDoo, Tampa Bay Storm, Washington Valor, and the Berlin Rebels.
 Cokinos with the Washington Valor in 2017 | |
| Nashville Kats | |
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| Position: | Head coach |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. c. 1968 (age 55–56) |
| Career information | |
| High school: | Archbishop Williams (Braintree, Massachusetts) |
| College: | UMass Boston |
| Undrafted: | 1990 |
| Career history | |
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| Career highlights and awards | |
College career
editCokinos attended University of Massachusetts Boston, where he was a running back for the Beacons.[1] He was a college teammate of Pat Sperduto, whom he later served under in Nashville.
Coaching career
editCokinos spent seven years as a head coach for two teams in the German Football League.[2][3] Cokinos was an assistant coach for the Nashville Kats from 2005 to 2007. While with the Kats, he was also tasked with evaluating professional arena/indoor football players for the Tennessee Titans, who then owned the Kats.[2] Cokinos was later head coach of the Alabama Vipers, Georgia Force and New Orleans VooDoo, helping the Force reach the playoffs in 2011 and 2012.[4][5] He coached the Tennessee Valley Vipers to a 56 to 55 overtime victory against the Spokane Shock in ArenaCup IX.[4] Cokinos served as head coach of the Alabama Hammers of the Professional Indoor Football League from 2013 to 2014, winning the PIFL Championship in 2013 and being named Coach of the Year.[6] He was named assistant head coach and defensive coordinator of the Tampa Bay Storm on October 26, 2015.[7][8] On May 5, 2016, Cokinos was named the inaugural head coach for the Washington Arena Football League Team, which was later named the Washington Valor.[5][9] He held this position until May 16, 2018, when he was relieved of his position as coach of the then-winless Valor.
In 2019, he served as defensive coordinator of the Berlin Rebels in Germany.[10]
In December 2022, Cokinos was hired as the head football coach for Knoxville Catholic High School but he resigned in July 2023 before coaching a game.[11][12]
Head coaching record
editAFL
edit| Team | Year | Regular season | Postseason | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Won | Lost | Win % | Finish | Won | Lost | Win % | Result | ||
| ALA | 2010 | 7 | 9 | .438 | 4th in AC South | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| GEO | 2011 | 11 | 7 | .611 | 2nd in AC South | 1 | 1 | .500 | Lost to Jacksonville Sharks in AC Championship |
| GEO | 2012 | 9 | 9 | .500 | 2nd in AC South | 0 | 1 | .000 | Lost to Jacksonville Sharks in Conference Semifinals |
| GEO total | 20 | 16 | .556 | 1 | 2 | .333 | |||
| NO | 2015 | 3 | 14 | .176 | 3rd in AC East | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| WAS | 2017 | 3 | 11 | .214 | 5th in AFL | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| WAS | 2018 | 0 | 4 | .000 | (Fired) | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| WAS total | 3 | 15 | .167 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||
| Total[13] | 33 | 54 | .379 | 1 | 2 | .333 | |||
af2, IFL and PIFL
edit| Team | Year | Regular season | Postseason | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Won | Lost | Win % | Finish | Won | Lost | Win % | Result | ||
| WBS | 2003 | 6 | 10 | .375 | 3rd in af2 AC NE | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| SA | 2004 | 9 | 7 | .563 | 4th in IFL | 0 | 1 | .000 | Lost to Amarillo Dusters in Semifinals |
| TV | 2008 | 10 | 6 | .625 | 3rd in af2 AC South | 4 | 0 | 1.000 | Won ArenaCup IX |
| TV | 2009 | 11 | 5 | .688 | 1st in af2 AC South | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | Lost to Green Bay Blizzard in AC Round 1 |
| TV total | 21 | 11 | .656 | 4 | 1 | .800 | |||
| ALA | 2013 | 9 | 2 | .818 | 1st in PIFL | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | Won PIFL Championship |
| ALA | 2014 | 4 | 8 | .333 | 4th in PIFL AC | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| ALA total | 13 | 10 | .556 | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | |||
| Total | 49 | 38 | .563 | 6 | 2 | .750 | |||
References
edit- ^ Larry Mahoney (October 24, 1988). "UMass-Boston tops MMA 19-0". Bangor Daily News. Retrieved November 4, 2014.
- ^ a b "New Orleans VooDoo hire Dean Cokinos as its new head coach". nola.com. September 17, 2014. Archived from the original on September 8, 2017. Retrieved November 4, 2014.
- ^ "Dean Cokinos Becomes First Head Coach of Washington's AFL Team". arenafan.com. May 5, 2016. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
- ^ a b "Dean Cokinos". arenafootball.com. Archived from the original on April 2, 2016. Retrieved November 4, 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b "Dean Cokinos Becomes First Head Coach of Washington's AFL Team". arenafootball.com. May 5, 2016. Archived from the original on May 6, 2016. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "DEAN COKINOS OUT AS HAMMERS COACH". alabamahammers.com. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved September 7, 2017.
- ^ "STORM CONTINUES TO BUILD COACHING STAFF". tampabaystorm.com. October 26, 2015. Archived from the original on February 1, 2016. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
- ^ "Dean Cokinos". arenafootball.com. Archived from the original on April 2, 2016. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Russel, Jake (May 5, 2016). "D.C.'s still-unnamed Arena Football League team tabs Dean Cokinos as head coach". washingtonpost.com. Archived from the original on August 22, 2016. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
- ^ "Kuci nimmt Auszeit". football-aktuell. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
- ^ Catholic, East Tennessee (January 31, 2023). "New KCHS football head coach ready for the challenge". East Tennessee Catholic. Retrieved June 28, 2023.
- ^ Brown, Toyloy, III (July 10, 2023). "How Knoxville Catholic football will move forward after first-year coach Dean Cokinos' resignation". Knoxville News Sentinel. Retrieved October 21, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Dean Cokinos Coaching Record". ArenaFan.com. Retrieved July 4, 2017.