{"id":353739,"date":"2026-07-27T15:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/353739\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:25:09","slug":"north-florida-athletics-names-kailan-jones-head-cheerleading-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/353739\/","title":{"rendered":"North Florida Athletics Names Kailan Jones Head Cheerleading Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013\u00a0University of North Florida Vice President of Intercollegiate Athletics <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/staff-directory\/nick-morrow\/170\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"170\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Morrow<\/a> has announced <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/staff-directory\/kailan-jones\/595\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"595\" target=\"_blank\">Kailan Jones<\/a> as the Head Coach of the Cheerleading program on Monday.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s an honor to serve as the next Head Coach at North Florida,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;I believe the strongest teams are built on trust, consistency, and a shared commitment to excellence. I&#8217;m excited to invest in our student-athletes and help build a championship culture that represents the University of North Florida with pride.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nJones joins North Florida after he spent 2025-26 in an Assistant Coach role with the All-Girl D1A Cheerleading program at South Florida. In that role, he assisted in coaching, training and preparation, and contributed to athlete development, performance execution, game-day preparation and sideline presence.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHe helped guide the program to a 2026 UCA All-Girl D1A Game Day National Championship, in addition to 2026 UCA All-Girl D1A National and 2026 Cheerleading Worlds Division runner-up finishes.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nJones has continued to expand his instructional experience as a Collegiate Skills Instructor with Clark Specialties since 2023, where he has led skills development at the collegiate level.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSince 2022, he has also served as a Camp and Retreat Instructor with Sunshine College Retreat. He joined IMPACT Choreography and Skills in 2026 as a Skills Instructor, where he has provided advanced training with an emphasis on skill progression, safety and performance.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nJones served as a Collegiate and High School Instructor for Varsity Brands from 2011-19.\u00a0He also holds USA Cheer certification.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nJones, a Morehead, Ky., native, graduated with a Bachelor&#8217;s degree in General Studies from Morehead State, where he was a student-athlete for the Cheerleading program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013\u00a0University of North Florida Vice President of Intercollegiate Athletics Nick Morrow has announced Kailan Jones as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-353739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}