Head Football Coach

Cedric Thomas
Cedric Thomas
Bio

Cedric Thomas was named as the new head football coach at Mississippi Delta Community College on Dec. 30, 2020.

The Cleveland native is a former MDCC student-athlete as a defensive back for the Trojans in 1997 and 1998, and also spent time on the Delta coaching staff from 2003-2004 and then again from 2007-2011.

Thomas succeeds Jeff Tatum, who resigned after eight seasons to take the Athletic Director position at Garden City (Kan.) Community College.

Thomas comes to Moorhead fresh off a stint as the defensive backs coach at the University of Southern Mississippi, where he spent the 2020 season with the Golden Eagles. His time in Hattiesburg came after a two-year stint as the head football coach at the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff, his four-year alma mater.

In a two-year span in Pine Bluff, Thomas helped lead the Golden Lions to a four-win improvement, as UAPB tripled their win total from two wins to six wins from 2018 to 2019. In his two years, he coached 14 All-Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) honorees, including nine first-team selections.

Prior to his appointment at Pine-Bluff, Thomas spent six seasons at Alcorn State University, where he was the defensive backs coach from 2012-15 and then the defensive coordinator in 2016 and 2017. While in Lorman, Alcorn experienced a wealth of success, winning four consecutive East titles and two straight SWAC titles in 2014 and 2015.

Thomas served as the running backs coach at the University of Tennessee-Martin in 2002, before coming to Moorhead in 2003, where he also spent the 2004 season. After a two-year gig at Itawamba Community College in 2005 and 2006, he returned to MDCC for the 2007-2011 seasons.

The former MDCC and UAPB standout earned an Associate of Arts degree from MDCC in 1998, a Bachelor's degree in recreation in 2001 from UAPB and a Master's degree in administration from Alcorn State in 2015.

The former East Side High School graduate is married to Kelunda, and the couple has one daughter, Loegan. Thomas also has a son, Cedric Jr.