About Coach Coffman...
- Alma Mater: Henderson State University
- Competition Experience: Competed three seasons at HSU from 2018-2020
- Entering 3rd Season
- 2025: Coffman led the competitive cheer squad to a 3rd place finish in the NCA Nationals Intermediate Small Coed NAIA Division. The City of Parkville recognized the cheer program for their exceptional performance at nationals and at the Parkville Board of Aldermen meeting, Mayor Katerndahl congratulated team members and staff for their accomplishment.
Coaching experience before Park University...
- 2021-2024 / Henderson State Spirit Squad Coordinator, Head Coach of Cheerleading and Dance
Coffman will draw from a wealth of experience in her new role with the Pirates as a former student-athlete at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Ark., where she was the Reddies cheer captain from 2018-2020. After receiving her Bachelor of Arts in Literature with a minor in Exercise Science, she remained at Henderson State and completed her Master's Degree of Liberal Arts.
"I am overly excited to start my journey as Head Cheerleading Coach at Park University. I am so grateful for the opportunity to develop a program and bring back a sport that I consider imperative to university athletics. I have felt tremendous support from Kristin Gillette and her staff and I look forward to establishing a relationship with everyone working diligently to make Park Athletics elite. Entering into the 2024-2025 school year I plan to elevate school spirit and the support of the Pirate athletic teams while simultaneously developing a squad of fierce competitors.", said Coffman.
In 2021, she moved into the position of Spirit Coordinator, Head Coach of Cheerleading and Dance, at her alma mater where she has been since. As head coach, she developed the program competitively with 1
st and 2
nd place finishes in the Spirit Rally Cheer Open Division and in the Spirit Rally Cheer Open Division in Spring of 2022. The next year the Reddies, led by Coffman, placed 2
nd place overall at NCA College Nationals in 2023.
Outside of competition, her program was immersed within the Henderson State's athletic events and undoubtedly boosted school spirit on game days, including coverage of seven sports for the Reddies. Her passion within the sport and the commitment to support all of athletics led her to be selected as the NCAA Division II cheerleading and dance representative to speak at the Varsity University conference for cheerleading and dance coaches on the importance of Cheerleading and Dance in the game day experience.
To top it all off, she was the first HSU cheerleading coach in school history to take the program to in-person College Nationals in April 2022.
Coffman is from Emory, Texas and her brother Colton Coffman is a fellow HSU alumnus, playing for the Reddies' baseball team from 2016-2018.
