 Stacey Hairston in is his fifth season as head women's golf coach and an assistant football coach at Ohio Northern University.
Hairston has spent the past 11 seasons as an assistant football coach for ONU and was the interim head coach in 2003.
Hairston played
defensive back for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football
League for three years after a successful three-year stint with
the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League.
The Westerville, Ohio, native is also an avid golfer who carries a 6-handicap.
"Our golf program has made tremendous progress toward becoming a consistently competitive team," Hariston said. "Our young ladies understand how mentally focused you have to be each and every week in order to compete in the much improved Ohio Athletic Conference. Over the past five years, I have enjoyed watching the transition of our program into a genuinely competitive golf program. We no longer talk in terms of 'if' we will win, but 'when' we will win our first OAC championship."
The Lady Polar Bears finished fifth at the Ohio Athletic Conference Championships last spring after finishing fourth in 2005, fifth in 2004 and third at the OAC Championships in ’03.
While at Ohio Northern, Hairston set several school records while playing defensive back and wide receiver. He also starred in track and diving at ONU.
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He led the Bears in receiving in 1987 and 1988 with 515 and 577 yards, respectively, and led in all-purpose yards in 1988 with 754.
His 1,097 receiving
yards is seventh-best in ONU history and his 59 career receptions
is 12th-best at ONU.
"The next level for our golf program is to put ourselves in a position to contend for an OAC Championship," he said. "Developing the ladies' overall mental toughness will only enhance our chances. We will haveto play or best golf in the biggest tournament of the year in order to fulfill such aspirations."
He moved to
Ada from Columbus, where he enjoyed a successful career in real
estate and as an investor in property management since the end of
his NFL career.
He is the founder
and past president of Athletes for Others, a nonprofit service organization
made up of former NFL and college athletes.
Hairston is
also active with the Central Ohio NFL Alumni Association.
He and his wife, Johanne, live in Ada with their 3-year old son, Jonathan Stacey, and their newborn twins, Jayden and Jordyn.
Education: Hairston
earned the BA degree from Ohio Northern in 1989.
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