Chris Hedden - Football Coach - Bowling Green State University Athletics

Chris Hedden

Title:
Offensive Run Game Coordinator (Offensive Line)
Email:
falconrecruit@bgsu.edu
Phone:
419-372-7083

Coach Hedden
Hometown	Tiffin, Ohio
College	Heidelberg (1994)
Family	Wife, Jennifer, daughters Alaina, Alexandra and Allyson, and son Christopher
Coaching History
1992-94	Tiffin Columbian HS, Assistant Coach
1995	Tiffin, Offensive Coordinator/Offensive Line
1996	Toledo, Graduate Assistant
1997-00	Northern Iowa, Offensive Coordinator/Running Backs
2001-08	Toledo, Tight Ends/Offensive Line/Wide Receivers/Offensive Coordinator/Running Game Coordinator)
2009	Akron, Tight Ends
2011	Tiffin Calvert HS, Volunteer Assistant Coach
2012-14	Toledo St. Francis de Sales HS, Head Coach
2015-18	Trine, Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks
2019	Bowling Green, Running Backs
2020	Bowling Green, Tight Ends
2021	Bowling Green, Offensive Line
2022-pres	Bowling Green, Offensive Run Game Coordinator/Offensive Line

Chris Hedden is in his fourth season on Scot Loeffler's staff at Bowling Green. He returned to the Mid-American Conference at Bowling Green in 2019 and boasts 29 years of coaching experience across high school and collegiate ranks, including almost a decade within the MAC.

Hedden served as the running backs coach in 2019, moved to tight ends in 2020 and then offensive line in 2021. In January 2022 he was named the offensive run game coordinator in addition to his offensive line duties.

In his first year as the offensive line coach, Hedden inherited one of the nation's youngest units in 2021. He guided a unit that had two freshmen walk-ons (one true, one redshirt) starting. Cade Zimmerly was the only offensive or defensive true freshman walk-on to start a game in 2021. Zimmerly made 10 starts between the left guard and center positions.

In his lone season as the tight ends coach, Quinton Morris earned first-team All-MAC honors after leading the league's tight ends with 20 receptions for 248 yards. Morris signed a free agent contract with the Buffalo Bills in 2021.

In 2019 he helped to develop Bryson Denley into one of the more dynamic and explosive backs in the league as BGSU saw three players run for more than 400 yards on the ground.

Most recently, Hedden served as the Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach at Trine University. After four consecutive 6-4 campaigns, he helped the program to back-to-back undefeated regular seasons and a 21-2 mark overall.

The Thunder led the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association in yards per game (475.0), total rushing yards (3,955), rushing yards per game (329.6), total offense (5,700 yards) and scoring (44.3 points per game) in 2017 and then posted nearly identical numbers again in 2018 with 42.6 points per game, 434.4 yards per game, and a league-high 304.8 yards per game on the ground, adding 40 rushing touchdowns.

As quarterbacks coach, Hedden mentored Evan Wyse to MIAA Offensive MVP honors and set a Trine single-season record with a 193.3 pass efficiency rating. Wyse was also a finalist for the Gagliardi Trophy, awarded to the most outstanding football player in NCAA Division III.

Before his time at Trine, Hedden spent three years locally as the head coach at Saint Francis de Sales High School in Toledo, leading the Knights to a playoff berth in 2013. He also spent a year as an assistant coach at Tiffin Calvert High School.

Prior to that time, Hedden spent eight years on the staff at Toledo, helping the Rockets to two MAC Championships, three Motor City Bowl appearances and a GMAC Bowl appearance. He served as the tight ends coach, offensive line coach and wide receivers coach, as well as offensive coordinator and running game coordinator. He was a graduate assistant at Toledo in 1996.

Hedden also made coaching stops at Akron (2009), Northern Iowa (1997-00) and Tiffin (1995).

Hedden played two years of football at Ashland before graduating with a degree in secondary education from Heidelberg in 1994. He and his wife, Jennifer, have three daughters – Alaina, Alexandra and Allyson – and a son, Christopher.