Jeff McMartin

Jeff McMartin is employed during the academic year as the head football coach at Central College in Pella, Iowa.  He also serves as an instructor in the Exercise Science Department. Jeff has also taught and coached football and track at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana; Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin; the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York; and Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois.

In 1992, Jeff earned his Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, with a concentration in Sports Sociology from Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, North Carolina. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1990 from Central College in Pella, Iowa. He has worked with FTE since 2001, and has been and SA since 2004. In his free time, Jeff enjoys reading, music, and spending time with his wife and two daughters.

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