Wittenberg Football Assistant Coach Kennedy Cook

Bio

Kennedy Cook joined the football coaching staff at Wittenberg University in December 2025. He serves as the team's co-offensive coordinator, and he is charged with oversight of the offensive line.

Prior to returning to his alma mater, Cook spent two seasons (2024-25) as the offensive line coach at Ohio Dominican University in Columbus, Ohio, and two seasons (2022-2023) as the offensive line coach and run game coordinator at Glenville State University in Glenville, West Virginia. At Glenville State, Cook coached a unit that ranked eighth in the nation for sacks allowed in 2022 (eight sacks allowed). He mentored three Pioneer players to all-conference honors, including Ian Pomeroy, a two-time first-team All-MEC and All-America selection.

From 2019-21, Cook a graduate assistant, focusing on the offensive line, at Ohio State. While there, he coached in the College Football Playoff in 2019 and 2020 as the Buckeyes played Clemson both years, losing the Tigers in the 2019 Fiesta Bowl before defeating the same opponent in the 2020 Sugar Bowl. Ohio State lost to Alabama in the 2020 National Championship, and the Buckeyes beat Utah in the 2021 Rose Bowl. At Ohio State, Cook helped to mentor five All-Americans and 11 All-Big Ten players.

Cook's first coaching job came as a graduate assistant, focusing on the offensive line, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, from 2017-2019. He coached three All-Mid-American Conference selections in his time there. Overall in his career, Cook has coached nine players that have been drafted by NFL teams.

Cook was a three-year starter as an offensive lineman at Wittenberg University before earning his bachelor's degree in sport management (minor in business) in 2017. He earned All-North Coast Athletic Conference honors, and he was a member of three teams that won NCAC titles and made appearances in the NCAA Division III Tournament.

Cook earned a master's degree in kinesiology with a concentration in sports leaderships from Miami in 2019 and a master's degree in sport management from OSU in 2021.