Jason Dumont steps down as football coach at Iowa City Regina

IOWA CITY — Jason Dumont has stepped down as football coach at Iowa City Regina, the school announced Wednesday.

Dumont led the program for three seasons, replacing Marv Cook, for whom he served as associate head coach and defensive coordinator for 14 years.

In Dumont’s time, Regina won seven state championships, six in a row from 2010 through 2015, appeared in a championship game 11 times and set a state record with a 56-game win streak.

As head coach, Dumont amassed a 23-7 record and went to the playoffs all three years. His 2023 Regals advanced to the Class 1A state playoff quarterfinals, where they lost last Friday night to MFL MarMac.

His son, Gentry, was an outstanding senior quarterback for the team who passed for more than 2,200 yards.

“For the last 37 years of my life, I have either been playing or coaching the game I love,” Dumont said in a statement provided by Regina. “The 17 years coaching at Regina has been the best part of my football journey. It is time for me to step away from the game I love and spend more time enjoying other aspects of my life.

“I will miss being around the coaches and kids on a daily basis the most. The most rewarding part of being a coach at Regina was not the success we had, it was seeing young boys become young men and watching the success they had in life after football. If the standard is ‘Leave it better than you found it,’ we did that and then some.”

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