Jed Stugart

Jed Lance Stugart (born March 4, 1970) is an American college football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri, a position he assumed after the 2016 season.^[1] Prior to that, he spent seven seasons as the head football coach at the University of Sioux Falls (2010–2016) and three years in the same position at MidAmerica Nazarene University (2006–2008).

Jed Stugart

Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Lindenwood
Conference	OVC–Big South
Record	41–38
Biographical details
Born	(1970-03-04) March 4, 1970 (age 55) Greeley, Colorado, U.S.
Playing career
1991–1992	Azusa Pacific
Position(s)	Linebacker
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1999–2002	Northern Colorado (DL/LB)
2003–2005	Northern Colorado (DC)
2006–2008	MidAmerica Nazarene
2009	UNLV (LB)
2010–2016	Sioux Falls
2017–present	Lindenwood
Head coaching record
Overall	132–62
Bowls	1–0
Tournaments	3–3 (NAIA playoffs) 2–4 (NCAA D-II playoffs)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
1 HAAC (2008) 1 GPAC (2010) 1 NSIC (2016) 2 GLVC (2019, 2021)
Awards
NCIS Coach of the Year (2016)

A native of Greeley, Colorado, Stugart played football as a linebacker at Azusa Pacific University. During the 1990s he pursued a country music career in Nashville, Tennessee. Performing as Jed Lance, he opened for Lonestar, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Tim McGraw. Stugart returned to Greeley in the late 1990s and volunteered as a high school football coach. Joe Glenn, then head football coach at the University of Northern Colorado, hired Stugart to join his staff as a volunteer. Stugart later became a graduate assistant at Northern Colorado before being promoted to defensive coordinator in 2003.^[2]

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs	NAIA#
MidAmerica Nazarene Pioneers (Heart of America Athletic Conference) (2006–2008)
2006	MidAmerica Nazarene	7–3	7–3	T–2nd		22
2007	MidAmerica Nazarene	9–3	8–2	T–2nd	L NAIA First Round	13
2008	MidAmerica Nazarene	10–1	10–0	1st	L NAIA First Round	8
MidAmerica Nazarene:		26–7	25–5
Sioux Falls Cougars (Great Plains Athletic Conference) (2010)
2010	Sioux Falls	13–1	10–0	1st	L NAIA Championship	2
Sioux Falls Cougars (NCAA Division II independent) (2011)
2011	Sioux Falls	5–4
Sioux Falls Cougars (Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference) (2012–2016)
2012	Sioux Falls	9–2	9–2 / 5–2	T–2nd / 3rd (South)
2013	Sioux Falls	6–5	6–5 / 4–3	T–5th / T–3rd (South)
2014	Sioux Falls	11–1	10–1 / 6–1	3rd / 2nd (South)	W Mineral Water	18
2015	Sioux Falls	9–3	9–2 / 5–2	T–2nd / 3rd (South)	L NCAA Division II First Round	22
2016	Sioux Falls	12–1	11–0 / 7–0	1st / 1st (South)	L NCAA Division II Second Round	8
Sioux Falls:		65–17	55–10
Lindenwood Lions (Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association) (2017–2018)
2017	Lindenwood	4–7	4–7	T–8th
2018	Lindenwood	4–7	4–7	10th
Lindenwood Lions (Great Lakes Valley Conference) (2019–2021)
2019	Lindenwood	9–4	7–0	1st	L NCAA Division II Second Round	25
2020–21	No team—COVID-19
2021	Lindenwood	9–3	7–0	1st	L NCAA Division II First Round
Lindenwood Lions (Ohio Valley Conference) (2022)
2022	Lindenwood	7–3	2–3	T–3rd
Lindenwood Lions (Big South–OVC Football Association) (2023–present)
2023	Lindenwood	3–7	1–5	10th
2024	Lindenwood	5–7	4–4	5th
2025	Lindenwood	0–0	0–0
Lindenwood:		41–38	29–26
Total:		132–62
National championship         Conference title         Conference division title or championship game berth