Bio

Jimmy Hampton has assembled a model program since USAO hired him to begin the two soccer programs in 1998. Since then he has built respected teams that are both nationally-competitive and one that is admired by coaches and university administrators across the region.

Entering the 2022 seasons, Hampton has won 599 games (men and women) at USAO compiling a winning percentage of better than 64 percent (599-287-49). Currently amongst his NAIA peers, he is the 8th winningest active women’s coach with a record of 282-163-24, and one of the top 10 winningest active men’s coach with 317-124-25 record.

Hampton has been selected as the Sooner Athletic Conference or National Soccer Coaches Association American Southwest Region Coach nine different times. All total, Hampton has coached 182 all-conference players, 43 NAIA Scholar Athletes and 39 NAIA All-Americans in his 24 years.

Hampton has had 13 different teams (seven men, six women) that have qualified for the NAIA National Tournament with quarterfinal appearances in 2010 and 2011. His teams have won the Sooner Athletic Conference regular-season championship eight times, and they have won the SAC tournament championship an amazing 13 times. The men have won tournament championships in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2015. Additionally, the men's team won the 1998 and the 1999 Red River Conference championship. The women earned conference tournament championships in 2001, 2002, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2019.

Previous to joining the SAC, Hampton guided his teams to Red River Athletic Conference championships in 2001 and 2002 in the beginning of the program's development.

Before becoming USAO’s first soccer head coach, Hampton spent 10 seasons building championship-caliber teams at Chickasha High School. Since 1994, Hampton and the Fightin’ Chicks collected five state 4A championships. His boys teams won back-to-back state championships in 1995-96, one in 1999 and another in 2002, while his girls won the 1998 crown.

In his 10 years at CHS, Hampton won nearly 90 percent of his games, and he ranks as one of the all-time winningest soccer coaches in Oklahoma prep history. He is one of the few soccer coaches in the southwest to obtain a national “A” coaching license from the United States Soccer Federation, which is a credit to the quality of his coaching ability and techniques.

Additionally, Hampton serves as the Director of Coaching for the Oklahoma Energy Football Club and he has led the program to 10 state championships in 10 years.