Dean Cokinos

Dean Cokinos (born ) is an American football coach. He has held assistant coaching or head coaching positions with UMass Boston, Austin Peay, West Alabama, Noris Rams, Munich Cowboys, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers, San Angelo Stampede, Nashville Kats, Tennessee Valley Vipers, Alabama Vipers, Georgia Force, Alabama Hammers, New Orleans VooDoo, Tampa Bay Storm, Washington Valor, Berlin Rebels, Nashville Kats, and Berlin Thunder.

College career Cokinos attended University of Massachusetts Boston, where he was a running back for the Beacons. He was a college teammate of Pat Sperduto, whom he later served under in Nashville.

Coaching career Cokinos spent seven years as a head coach for two teams in the German Football League. Cokinos was an assistant coach for the Nashville Kats from 2005 to 2007. While with the Kats, he was also tasked with evaluating professional arena/indoor football players for the Tennessee Titans, who then owned the Kats. He coached the Tennessee Valley Vipers to a 56 to 55 overtime victory against the Spokane Shock in ArenaCup IX. Cokinos served as head coach of the Alabama Hammers of the Professional Indoor Football League from 2013 to 2014, winning the PIFL Championship in 2013 and being named Coach of the Year. He was named assistant head coach and defensive coordinator of the Tampa Bay Storm on October 26, 2015. On May 5, 2016, Cokinos was named the inaugural head coach for the Washington Arena Football League Team, which was later named the Washington Valor. He held this position until May 16, 2018, when he was relieved of his position as coach of the then-winless Valor.

In 2019, he served as defensive coordinator of the Berlin Rebels in Germany.

In December 2022, Cokinos was hired as the head football coach for Knoxville Catholic High School but he resigned in July 2023 before coaching a game.

Cokinos was the head coach of the Nashville Kats of the new Arena Football League in 2024.

On December 5, 2024, he was announced as the head coach of the Berlin Thunder of the European League of Football. However, he later resigned in January 2025 for personal reasons.

Head coaching record AFL Team Year Regular season PostseasonWonLostWin %Finish Won Lost Win % Result ALA 7 9 4th in AC South 0 0 .000 GEO 11 7 2nd in AC South 1 1 .500 GEO 9 9 2nd in AC South 0 1 .000 GEO total 20 16 1 2 .333 NO 3 14 3rd in AC East 0 0 .000 WAS 3 11 5th in AFL 0 0 .000 WAS 0 4 (Fired) 0 0 .000 WAS total 3 15 0 0 .000 Total 33 54 1 2

af2, IFL, PIFL, and AFL (2024)