Jeff Devanney begins begins his fourth season as head football coach at Trinity College. Trinity hired Devanney, a 1993 graduate of the College, as its 27th head coach in December of 2005. He had been Trinity's defensive coordinator in 2005, its special teams coordinator from 2001 to 2004, its secondary coach from 2002 to 2005, and its defensive line coach in 2001. Devanney has continued to coach the Bantam defensive backs each fall. In his rookie year at the helm, the Trinity defense surrendered just 54 points all season, and the Bantams have outscored their opponents, 664-316, in his three-year tenure as head coach.

Devanney has a 21-3 record as a head coach, and enters the 2009 season in the midst of a 10-game winning streak dating back to November of 2007. The Bantams have not lost a game at home since 2001, a streak of 31 straight games. With a young squad of 52 underclassmen and 24 upperclassmen, Devanney led his team to a perfect 8-0 record and outscored its opponents, 227-140, en route to a NESCAC Championship. Devanney, the 2008 NESCAC Coach of the Year, has seen 39 All-NESCAC team selections from his teams the last three years including the NESCAC Offensive (Eric McGrath) and Defensive (Tyler Berry) Player of the Year last fall. Of 26 NESCAC Players of the Week honors in 2008, eight of them were awarded to Bantams.

In 2006, Trinity led the nation in scoring defense and total defense, and finished second nationally in pass efficiency defense (73.2 opponent efficiency rating) with Devanney as its coordinator. In Devanney's eight years on the Bantam staff, Trinity has been ranked No. 1 in total defense in the country four times and posted 17 shutouts. Devanney's defenses have produced the NESCAC Defensive Player of the Year in three of the last four autumns and a Trinity player has been selected to participate in the Aztec Bowl Senior All-Star Game in Cancun, Mexico in five of the last six years.

A 1993 Trinity graduate and a star player in football and baseball for the College, Devanney was voted the NESCAC Football Defensive Player of the Year in 1992. He appears among the College's all-time leaders in punt returns and stolen bases in baseball. Devanney earned his master's degree in liberal studies from SUNY-Albany in 1995. Prior to Trinity, Devanney was the defensive coordinator at Central Connecticut State University from 1998-2000. He also served as a secondary coach at Georgia Tech and worked with the wide receivers and tight ends at Albany and Coast Guard. Devanney and his wife, Michele, their daughters, Shea and Caitlin, and their son, Sean, reside in Newington, Conn.