Vann Hunt joined the Allegheny football staff in February 2017. In 2017 and 2018, Hunt was the special teams coordinator and recruiting coordinator, before moving into the defensive coordinator role in 2019. In January, 2023, Hunt began serving as the Gators' acting head coach.
As special teams coordinator, Hunt mentored the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Special Teams Player of the Year in 2018 when Chase Balla earned the honor. One season later, Balla earned a spot on the All-Region team as a returner and was joined by Quinten Hunt who ranked fourth in the nation in blocked kicks. While working with wide receivers in 2018, Alex Victor became one of the most prolific receiving threats in Division III and broke nearly every Allegheny receiving record.Â
Since settling in as the defensive coordinator, Hunt's defenses have had defensive backs finish the year in the top 25 in Division III in pass break-ups twice (Q. Hunt; Azariah Beaugard, 2021).
A native of Phoenix, Arizona, Hunt was a four-year football letter winner at perennial NCAC power Wabash. After beginning his career in the defensive secondary, Hunt moved to the running back position for his final three seasons, earning All-NCAC honors in 2011. He helped lead the Little Giants to a pair of NCAA Division III national playoff appearances, as well as the 2011 NCAC championship.
After graduating from Wabash in 2013 with a degree in rhetoric and minor in religion, Hunt joined the football coaching staff at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Illinois. For the 2013 season, Hunt coached tight ends and wide receivers, before being named running backs coach in 2014, and the offensive line coach in 2015. He also served as the team’s assistant recruiting coordinator, director of equipment, summer camp coordinator, and the JV offensive coordinator, while he earned his M.BA. from Olivet in December 2015.
Hunt spent the 2016 season as the wide receivers coach at Bluefield College (Va.). He coached the third- and fourth-leading receivers in the Mid-South Conference, while he also served as the kick return coordinator, special teams assistant, and co-recruiting coordinator.
Hunt has also worked at a number of large camps throughout the Midwest, as he has served as an assistant at the Notre Dame Elite Camps, the USA Football Development Camp, the Darrell Hazell Prospect Camp, the Northwestern Prospect Camp, and the University of Illinois Prospect Camp. He is also an active member of the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), presenting at the organization's national convention twice, having two pieces published in thw AFCA Magazine and serving on the DIII Assistant Coach Committee.
Hunt and his wife, Mikka, and their son, Jonnah, and daughter Nayommi, reside in Meadville.
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