Upper Iowa University Athletics

Jason Hoskins returns for his fifth season as head football coach in 2025. He was named the head football coach at Upper Iowa following the 2019 season. Hoskins became the 16^th head football coach in the football program's history after returning to the Peacock coaching staff prior to the 2019 season. During the 2024 season, Hoskins led the Peacocks to a 7-4 record while going 6-2 in the GLVC. Upper Iowa's seven victories in a season are the most they have had since becoming a Division II program in 2003.

During the 2014-16 seasons, he served as the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach while helping to lead the team to 15 wins over that stretch. During the 2019 season, Hoskins was the defensive backs and special teams coach. Prior to his time at Upper Iowa, Hoskins spent five years as an assistant coach with fellow NSIC-member Northern State University. The Dubuque, Iowa native coached the secondary and was the recruiting coordinator for the Wolves.

Before his arrival in Aberdeen, S.D., Hoskins served as a graduate assistant at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Ill. working with the wide receivers in 2009 and the offensive line in 2008, and also serving as the program's video coordinator.

Hoskins also made coaching stops at the University of Minnesota Duluth (running backs) and Loras College as a student assistant with the running backs in 2005, tight ends in 2004 and wide receivers in 2002. He coached the defensive backs as a student assistant at Rockford College in Rockford, Ill. in 2003

Hoskins earned his bachelor's degree in history and secondary education from Loras in 2005 and his master's degree in education from the University of Minnesota-Duluth in 2013. He graduated from Dubuque Senior High School in 2001.

He and his wife Kelly are the proud parents of three kids, Ella, Michael and Kate.

Jason Hoskins: Year-by-Year at Upper Iowa (12-32, four seasons of competition)