Matt Hassan - Director of Football Operations - Football Support Staff

Matt Hassan

Title:
Director of Football Operations
Email:
hassan_mn@mercer.edu
Phone:
(478) 301-2713

Matt Hassan was hired as Mercer University's Director of Football Operations in July 2019.

Hassan joined the Bears’ staff after a three-year stint with Auburn’s football staff, where he served as a defensive analyst for the 2018 season and as an operations assistant from 2016-18. Prior to Auburn, Hassan spent two seasons on the coaching staff at Concordia University Chicago, working with the running backs in 2014 and tutoring linebackers in 2015, as well as coordinating academics, video and social media. He was additionally the running backs coach at Alma College in 2013.

Hassan was one of 30 participants selected for the 2014 NCAA/AFCA Future Football Coaches Academy and is a Bronze Certified Coach through the National Coaches Education Program. Hassan ranks second among career rushers at North Park University in Chicago, where he was a two-year captain, three-time offensive MVP and an All-CCIW running back in 2011 and 2012. He was vice-president of the North Park Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and received the CCIW Merle Chapman Leadership Award.

A product of Glen Ellyn, Ill., where he was a football and wrestling letterman at Glenbard West High School, Hassan received his bachelor’s degree in history and education from North Park in 2013 and a master’s degree in sports management and leadership from Concordia in 2015. He is married to the former Anna Maria LaMantia, who played soccer at North Park while earning a degree in exercise science and received a master’s degree from Auburn in Kinesiology.