Kirk Jellerson
Kirk Jellerson is an American football coach. He is currently the head coach at Whittier College.
Playing career
After graduating from St. Paul High School in Santa Fe Springs, California, where he was a member of California state runner-up team in 1978, he went on to play football at Cerritos College and Weber State University. He earned a Bachelor's Degree from Long Beach State in 1988.
Coaching career
Jellerson began his coaching career at Cerritos College, where he was the linebackers coach from 1983-1988. While at Cerritos, they won the South Coast Championship in 1986 and played in 3 bowl games. He then moved on to Fullerton College, where he was an assistant from 1989-1992. After one season as an assistant coach at Whittier College in 1993, he went over to Chapman University, where he was an assistant from 1994-1996. During his time at Chapman, the Panthers went an outstanding 26-4-1. Jellerson was the defensive coordinator at Plymouth State University in 1999 and at Kean University in 2000-2002. From 2004-2006, Jellerson served as the assistant head coach at Utica College and then moved on to Western Washington University from 2007-2008. In 2008, Western Washington won the Rotary Bowl championship before they ended the program. In 2009 and 2010, Jellerson was the defensive coordinator at Whittier College. On November 18, 2010, he was named the interim head coach at Whittier College. On February 21, 2011, he was named the head coach at Whittier College.
Head coaching record
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Team |
Overall |
Conference | Standing |
Bowl/playoffs |
Rank# |
| Utica Pioneers (Empire 8) (2007) |
| 2007 |
Utica |
1–2 | 1–2 | | | | |
| Total: | 1–2 | |
| National championship Conference title Conference division title |
| #Rankings from final Coaches Poll. |
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- No coach (1907)
- Woodward (1908)
- Herbert E. White (1909–1911)
- Russell T. Wilson (1912–1919)
- I. H. Van Cleave (1920)
- Esek H. Perry (1921–1924)
- Leo Calland (1925–1926)
- George Philbrook (1927–1928)
- Wallace Newman (1929–1942)
- No team (1943–1945)
- Wallace Newman (1946–1950)
- George Allen (1951–1956)
- Don Coryell (1957–1959)
- John Godfrey (1960–1979)
- Hugh Mendez (1980–1989)
- Don Uyeshima (1990)
- Ken Visser (1991–1993)
- Kirk Hoza (1994–1995)
- Bob Owens (1996–2002)
- Greg Carlson (2003–2005)
- William Hammer (2006–2010)
- Kirk Jellerson (2011– )
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