Southern Utah University Athletics

Jeff Hunt is in his eighth season with the Thunderbirds and third as a full-time assistant coach. 



Hunt graduated from Southern Utah in the spring of 2009 after having served as a student assistant over the previous five seasons.  He orginally came to SUU as a member of the track & field program.



His primary responsibility is with the SUU bars team and under Hunt’s tuteledge, the squad has continued to improve culminating in the highest season average on bars in team history (48.723) during the 2008 season.  The team has also posted two of the top three bars scores in school history over the previous years, including a school-record 49.150 in 2007 and 2008.

Hunt has served as the director of the Lake Owen Gymnastics Camp in Wisconsin during the past the summers of 2005-2009 and served as a coach at the camps in 2004 and 2010.  He is also the staff director for the Southern Utah Gymnastics Academy in addition to serving as a coach.

Hunt is single and resides in Cedar City.