University of Connecticut Athletics
Football
- Title:
- Senior Defensive Analyst - Defensive Backs
- Email:
- football@uconn.edu
Jason Thoren returns for his season season on UConn head football coach Jim Mora's staff in 2025. Thoren will be a defensive assistant, working with the UConn defensive backs this season. The Huskies announced the addition Thoren last spring as a senior defensive analyst.
Thoren joined the Huskies after spending the 2023 season as a defensive senior analyst at Mississippi State. His focus was as an assistant linebacker coach, working with the top two tacklers in the SEC in Nathanial Watson (137 tkls) and Jett Johnson (130 tkls).
Prior to his season at MSU, Thoren spent 15 seasons at Baker University in NAIA where he was the head coach from 2019 through 2022. In his first season, he led the team to 9-3 record and No. 14 national ranking while being named the Heart of America Head Coach of the Year. He won the award again in 2020 after leading the team to a 7-1 mark and a No. 7 national ranking.
He joined Baker in 2009 as the defensive coordinator and served in that role until 2018, winning four Heart of America Assistant Coach of the Year Awards
Thoren is a 1999 graduate of the University of Kansas where he played linebacker for the Jayhawks and finished his career in the top-20 for career tackles (306) in the program. He earned his degree in sports science with an emphasis on coaching.Â
He had a playing stint in NFL Europe with the Berlin Thunder and signed as a free agent with the Kansas City Chiefs in before beginning his coaching career as a graduate assistant at the University of Minnesota in 2001 where he coached the offensive line for two seasons and earned a master's degree in education with an emphasis in sports management.
