Drew Dallas is the 18th head coach in Blue Dragon Football history, named to the position on December 31, 2019.

After a 471-day wait from his date of hire to coaching his first game (Coronavirus pandemic), Dallas and the 2020/21 Blue Dragons proceeded to make history by winning the NJCAA Football national championship, the first in program history, in his first season.

Now three seasons into his tenure, Dallas has amassed a record of 28-3 with two Jayhawk Conference championships, a KJCCC Playoff championship, two appearances in the NJCAA Championship Game and one national championship. The 28 wins are the most by a Blue Dragon coach in his first three seasons. Dallas’ three-year total also includes 26 NJCAA All-Americans and 85 all-Jayhawk Conference selections with three KJCCC Players of the Year and one NJCAA National Player of the Year.

The 2020-21 Blue Dragons went 8-0, won the program’s eighth Jayhawk Conference title in program history and ultimately won the national crown after a thrilling 29-27 come-from-behind victory over No. 2 Snow College on June 5, 2021 at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, Arkansas. The victory completed a wire-to-wire finish for the Blue Dragons, who achieved their first preseason No. 1 national ranking in program history and never fell from that perch.

Dallas’ first Blue Dragon team produced 30 all-Jayhawk Conference performers, including 16 players on the first team. Cornerback Roterius Torrence was named both the KJCCC and NJCAA National Defensive Player of the Year. The national champion Blue Dragons had a record 10 NJCAA All-Americans, including six on the first team.

Dallas earned KJCCC Coach of the Year, Wichita Area Sports Commission Coach of the Year and NJCAA National Coach of the Year honors for the 2020/21 season.

After getting off to a slow start in 2021, the Blue Dragons closed strong to finish 9-2 overall and place third in the final NJCAA national rankings.

Just 3-2 after five games, the Blue Dragons won six in a row by an average winning margin of 37.7 points per game. Mixed into those three wins were decisive Jayhawk Conference Playoff wins over Highland (77-0), No. 5 Independence (42-0) and No. 11 Garden City (49-19). The Blue Dragons closed the season with a 66-34 win over No. 8 Hinds in the Salt City Bowl.

Running back Anwar Lewis was named the 2021 Jayhawk Conference Offensive Player of the Year. The Dragons had 24 all-conference players, including nine first-team selections. The Dragons also had six NJCAA All-Americans, headed by first-team selection, receiver Malik Benson.

The 2022 Blue Dragons started the season ranked No. 3 in the preseason poll and reached No. 1 on October 10. The Blue Dragons rolled through the Jayhawk Conference season for the program’s 10th league title and entered the NJCAA national playoffs 10-0 after a fourth-quarter blocked punt for a touchdown capped a 29-28 comeback win at No. 4 Iowa Western.

The Blue Dragons defeated No. 4 Coffeyville 38-7 in a national semifinal on December 3 at Gowans Stadium, but the national title game didn’t go so well as Iowa Western defeated the Dragons 31-0 on December 14 in Little Rock.

Running back Dylan Kedzior was named the Jayhawk Conference’s Offensive Player of the Year and quarterback Dylan Laible was a Walter Jones Player of the Year finalist. Dallas was named the ACCFCA Coach of the Year and the Wichita Area sports Commission Coach of the Year.

The 2020/21 season was the second for Dallas at Hutchison. Dallas was former Blue Dragon head coach Rion Rhoades’ offensive coordinator, assistant head coach and tight ends coach for the 2019 season, a season that saw tremendous offensive and overall team success, including a five-week stint atop the NJCAA National Rankings – which was a first in Blue Dragon Football history.

The 2019 Blue Dragons finished 10-2, tied for second in the KJCCC and won the Salt City Bowl. Hutchinson’s final No. 3 national ranking was the highest final ranking in program history.

Under Dallas, the 2019 Blue Dragon offense ranked No. 1 in the Jayhawk Conference and No. 3 in the NJCAA in scoring average at 44.8 points per game. The Blue Dragons were No. 2 in the conference and No. 4 in the NJCAA in rushing offense at 244.5 points per game and No. 2 in the KJCCC and No. 10 in the NJCAA in total offense at 419.6 yards per game.

Dallas comes from a football coaching family. His father, Dave, was a head coach in the KCAC at Ottawa University for eight seasons and Kansas Wesleyan University for 17 seasons. Dave Dallas amassed 132 wins in his time as a head coach.

Before coming to Hutchinson, Dallas was at NCAA Division II Angelo State University from 2011 to 2018. He coached tight ends in 2011, receivers from 2012-2015 and was Angelo State’s offensive coordinator from 2016-18.

Angelo State won the Lone Star Conference championship in 2014 as well as making it to the NCAA Division II national playoffs. ASC also played in the 2017 and 2018 Heart of Texas Bowls.

As the offensive coordinator, Dallas produced 17 all-conference offensive players. The 2017 team led the LSC with 37.3 points per game. Angelo State ranked seventh nationally in 2017 in total offense and eighth in passing.

One of the top recruiters on the ASC staff, perhaps the top recruit Dallas brought to Angelo State was Markus Jones, who was a two-time LSC all-league player, 2019 Harlon Hill finalist and 2018 Gene Upshaw Award winner.

Before Angelo State, Dallas was quarterbacks and receivers coach at Kansas Wesleyan. As the quarterbacks and receivers coach at KWU, Dallas mentored seven all-KCAC receivers in 2009 and 2010.

During his playing days as a quarterback, Dallas started his collegiate career at Fort Hays State in 2004 and 2005. He finished his collegiate career at Kansas Wesleyan in 2006 and 2007.

Dallas graduated from Salina Central High School in 2004. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Health, Physical Education & Recreation from Kansas Wesleyan in 2009 and his Masters of Education in Educational Administration from Angelo State in 2013.

Dallas and wife, Heather, have two daughters, Hayden (12) and Parker (6) and a son, Cooper (10).