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John Heavner

  • Title
    Running Backs & Tight Ends/Recruiting Coordinator
  • Email
    jheavner@se.edu
  • Phone
    580-745-3372
John Heavner joined the Southeastern coaching staff in the spring of 2014 as the wide receiver's coach and moved to coaching quarterbacks and coordinating the team’s recruiting efforts in 2015.
 
The 2017 season was tough on quarterbacks as injuries forced three different QB's into starts over thr course of the season. Despite the changes, SE posted 2,307 yards passing combined and 17 touchdowns while completing 52.9 percent of its passes and carrying a team passer rating of 123.78.

In 2016 under his tutelage CB Cantwell set a single game and single season record for completion percentage with a 21-of-23 effort in a win over East Central as well as a 66.3 percent mark over the course of the season. The passing game would go on to tally 2,369 yards and 19 touchdowns while maintaining a 145.6 QB efficiency rating.
 
In his second year with the Savage Storm and first working with the team's quarterbacks SE posted a 6-5 record overall offense was fourth in the Great American Conference in scoring at 33.4 points per game and was ranked in the top half of the league in passing.
 
Ryan Polite posted 2,849 yards passing for the season and throughout the 2015 season posted the fourth best single game passing mark, 398 versus Harding, finished with the fourth best single season passing mark and finished fifth on SE's all-time passing list with 5,467 yards in two seasons.
 
In his first season with the receiving corps the team turned in a five-game turnaround to finish the season at 7-5 with the program’s first postseason appearance since 2004 and the first winning season since 2009.
 
The Savage Storm played in its first bowl game since the mid-90’s when it earned a berth in the Live United Texarkana Bowl in Texarkana, Texas where it played MIAA opponent Central Missouri.
 
The 2014 season saw Anthony Foster earn All-Great American Conference honors while hauling in 56 catches for 784 yards.  As a whole the Storm piled up 2,785 yards of receiving and 20 touchdowns spread over 19 different players who caught a pass.
 
Heavner has coached at both the high school and college levels, holding positions ranging from position coach to head coach.
 
He makes the move to SE after spending the 2013 season as an assistant coach at Norman High School in Norman, Okla., where he was responsible for the tight ends and tackles while also assisting with offensive game planning and play calling.  While with NHS he also assisted in coordinating all phases of the kicking game.
 
Prior to his stop in Norman, he spent six seasons from 2006-through-2011 as the head coach at Dordt College, a NAIA program in Sioux Center, Iowa.
 
In 2005, Heavner coached at Division I FCS member Missouri State where he worked with the team’s quarterbacks and served as the passing game coordinator while assisting in the coordination of recruiting.
 
He got his coaching start at East Central where he joined the program in January of 1998 after completing his four-year playing career with the Tigers, first taking on the role of coaching the team’s wide receivers before eventually taking on recruiting and video coordination duties before ultimately serving as the team’s offensive coordinator for the 2004 and 2005 seasons.
 
Heavner was a four-year letterman and a two-time all-conference selection for ECU from 1994-thorough-1997 as a tight end.
 
He earned a BA in political science from East Central in 1999 and in 2000 completed his M. Ed. in Secondary Education form ECU as well.
 
Heavner and his wife, Tiffany, have three children, Caleb, Allie and Tatum.
 
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