Hank Campbell is the newest member of the SWOSU Football coaching staff, joining the Bulldogs as the Defensive Backs coach for the 2017 season.
Campbell joins the Bulldogs with 18 years of coaching experience at the collegiate and high school levels, including the last three years coaching in the state of Oklahoma. For the past two seasons, Campbell has served as the Defensive Coordinator at Bacone College after spending the 2014 season coaching linebackers at Langston University.
Before joining the collegiate coaching ranks, Campbell had a long, successful tenure as a high school coach in South Carolina, where he held a variety of positions from 2002-13, including one season as a head coach at Charleston Collegiate High School. He also has six seasons of experience as a defensive coordinator along with one year of offensive coordinator to his credit.
Campbell got his start in coaching at East Tennessee State, where he coached defensive ends for the Bucs for two seasons in 1997-98.
As a player, Campbell was a four-year letterwinner and three-year starter at linebacker for the South Carolina Gamecocks from 1991-95. In his time with the Gamecocks, Campbell played in one bowl game and he served as a team captain during his senior season.
A native of James Island, S.C., Campbell earned his bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from the University of South Carolina in 1995.
THE CAMPBELL FILE
Coaching Career
2017 – Present: Southwestern Oklahoma State (Defensive Backs)
2015-16: Bacone (Defensive Coordinator)
2014: Langston (Linebackers)
2012-13: Colleton County HS (Defensive Backs)
2008: Charleston Collegiate HS (Head Coach/Offensive Coordinator)
2006-07: Charleston Collegiate HS (Defensive Coordinator)
2003-05: West Ashley HS (Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers)
2002: Battery Creek HS (Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers)
1997-98: East Tennessee State (Defensive Ends)
Playing Career
1991-95: South Carolina
Four-year letterwinner
Three-year starter
Team Captain, 1995
Education
University of South Carolina
Bachelor of Science, 1995
