Jeff Cummins
Jeff Cummins
  • Class:
    2016
  • Sport(s):
    Football (1988-89)

Bio

Defensive lineman and Harbor City native Jeff Cummins played for ECC in 1988 and 1989, earning First Team All-American status as a defensive end and was named to the California Football JC Grid-Wire All-Decade Team. He was the top junior college recruit for the University of Oregon, and played from 1990-92 before a decade of professional football.

He competed in the Canadian Football League for the Las Vegas Posse, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats from 1994-2000. From 2001-2003, he played in the Arena Football League with the Toronto Phantoms, Arizona Rattlers, and the Georgia Force. Cummins returned to Canada to serve as the head coach for Acadia University in Nova Scotia for the past 13 seasons.

He was named the Atlantic University Sport Coach of the Year in 2004, 2005, 2011 and 2012, along with being honored as the National Canadian Interuniversity Sport Coach of the Year in 2011.