Jeff Coover serves as Assistant Coach - Jumps for University of Northern Iowa's Track and Field program in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Coover is in his ninth season as a full-time coach at UNI in 2025-26, focusing on jumps and multi-events. During his time, athletes under Coover's tutelage have earned multiple Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) championships and all-conference honors.
Coover is a three-time MVC Men's Indoor Coach of the Year award winner (2023, 2025, 2026) and was named the conference's men's outdoor Assistant Coach of the Year in 2022. Coover's athletes scored an astonishing 70.5 of the Panthers' 157.5 total points at the 2026 MVC Indoor Championships en route to UNI winning its 16th men's team title, with three of their four individual titles coming under his coaching. Carter Morton, who ranked fourth in Division I in the heptathlon during the year, placed sixth in the event at the NCAA Indoor Championships for his second consecutive First Team All-American honor after scoring 38 points at the conference championships with titles in the heptathlon, long jump and high jump, as well as a runner-up finish in the pole vault. Morton was also named the men's most valuable athlete and most outstanding field athlete of the meet for a second straight year.
