Jordan is entering his first season at Utah State as an Assistant Coach overseeing sprints and hurdles. He has a Level II USA Track & Field certification in the sprints, hurdles, and relays disciplines.
Prior to Utah State, Jordan spent eight years on the Illinois State staff, with roles as associate head coach from 2024-26, assistant coach from 2020-24, and as a graduate assistant from 2018-20.
Jordan is a three-time Missouri Valley Conference Assistant Coach of the Year recipient, winning the women's indoor and outdoor honors in 2025 and the men's distinction for the 2024 indoor season. As a coach, he mentored 33 student-athletes who were crowned MVC champions, along with more than 100 MVC medal winners and one All-American during his time in Illinois. He brought 19 individual qualifiers and four relay teams to the NCAA West Regionals and helped the Redbirds secure eight team championships with his contributions to the sprints, hurdles, and relay teams.
Before his coaching career, Jordan was a two-time All-MVC sprinter at Illinois State from 2013 to 2018. There, he ran stints on three different 4x100m teams that sit among the Redbirds' top 10 all-time leaderboards as of August 2026. He qualified for the NCAA West Regionals in the 4x100m in 2018 and won an MVC conference title in 2017.
Jordan, a native of Chicago, Illinois, graduated with his master’s degree in kinesiology & recreation in 2020 and his bachelor’s in political science in 2018.
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