HutchCC head football coach Drew Dallas has been named the 2024 American Community College Football Coaches Association (ACCFCA) Coach of the Year, the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) announced on Friday.
Dallas will be presented the award at the 2025 AFCA Convention on Monday, Jan. 13 in Charlotte, N.C.
Dallas also won the award in 2022.
He helped guide the Blue Dragons to their second national championship in program history, with a 28-23 win over Iowa Western on Wednesday, Dec. 18 in Canyon, Texas.
The Blue Dragons have gone 49-5 in Dallas' five seasons, including both of the national championships, the first which came in the spring of 2021.
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Hutchinson Community College Head Coach Drew Dallas has been named the 2024 American Community College Football Coaches Association (ACCFCA) Coach of the Year. The award will be presented to Dallas during the 2025 AFCA Convention on Monday, January 13, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Dallas earned his second ACCFCA Coach of the Year honor after leading Hutchinson to a 11-1 record, the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC) title and the programâs second National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division I national championship. This was the Blue Dragons third appearance in the NJCAA national championship game. In his first season as head coach, Dallas led Hutchinson to an 8-0 record and the programâs first NJCAA national title in 2020/21. He has an overall record of 49-5 in his five seasons as head coach with four KJCCC titles. Dallas won his first ACCFCA Coach of the Year honor in 2022 after leading Hutchinson to an 11-1 record and an appearance in the NJCAA title game.
A native of Salina, Kansas, Dallas was a quarterback at Fort Hays State from 2004-05, then finished his playing career at Kansas Wesleyan from 2006-07. He began his coaching career at KWU, coaching quarterbacks and receivers in 2009 and 2010 before moving on to Angelo State in 2011. Dallas was with the NCAA Division II program for eight seasons, coaching tight ends in 2011, then receivers from 2012-15. In his final three years, he was the offensive coordinator, helping the Rams to two Heart of Texas Bowl games in 2017 and 2018.
Dallas joined the Hutchinson staff in 2019 as assistant head coach, offensive coordinator, and tight ends coach. The Blue Dragons finished 10-2 that year with a win in the Salt City Bowl. Under Dallas, the offense ranked No. 3 in the nation in scoring, No. 4 in rushing offense and No. 10 in total offense.
In his short time as head coach, Dallas has racked up the awards. He is a four-time KJCCC Coach of the Year and won Wichita Area Sports Commission Coach of the Year and NJCAA National Coach of the Year for the 2020-21 season. Dallas has produced 33 NJCAA All-Americans, 23 All-KJCCC selections, six KJCCC Players of the Year and two NJCAA National Players of the Year.
About the ACCFCA: Before 2000, the two junior college associations, the California Community College Football Coaches Association, and the National Junior College Football Coaches Association, each had its own Coach of the Year. In 2000, the AFCA invited the organizations to meet at the AFCA Convention. Three national goals were set: to form a national community college football coachesâ association, to study the possibility of a national championship game between the two organizations and to select a yearly National Coach of the Year who would be recognized by the AFCA. Their initial goal, to create an umbrella coaches association, has been accomplished.
In 2002, the American Community College Football Coaches Association selected its first national coach of the year, Michael White of Reedley College. Past winners of the ACCFCA Coach of the Year are: Troy Morrell, Butler Community College, 2003; Tim Hatten, Pearl River Community College, 2004; Don Dillon, American River College, 2005; John Featherstone, El Camino College, 2006; Jeff Chudy, Bakersfield College, 2007; Jeff Jordan, Butte College, 2008; Brad Franchione, Blinn College, 2009; Bob Jastrab, Mt. San Antonio College, 2010; Bert Williams, Georgia Military College, 2013; Buddy Stephens, East Mississippi Community College, 2011 and 2014; Mark McElroy, Saddleback College, 2015; Jeff Sims, Garden City Community College, 2016; Scott Strohmeier, Iowa Western Community College, 2012 and 2017; Steve Mooshagian, Ventura College, 2018; Tom Craft, Riverside City College, 2019; Kurt Taufaâasau, New Mexico Military Institute, 2021; Drew Dallas, Hutchinson Community College, 2022 and Tom Craft, Riverside City College, 2023.