Oberlin College Athletics

John Pont will enter his third season as the Oberlin College head football coach in 2025. 

In his two years as the head coach of the Crimson and Gold, Pont has guided two All-North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) honorees while also leading 13 student-athletes to College Sports Communicators Academic All-District laurels, 13 National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society members, and 30 NCAC Academic Honor Roll recipients. 

Prior to Oberlin, Pont held coaching roles across all three NCAA divisions. Most recently, he served as an offensive analyst and football athletic performance assistant at Indiana University (2021-22) after four years and three seasons (2017-20) as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Chicago. While with the Maroons, Pont led one of the top-performing offenses in Division III. His units consistently ranked among national leaders in multiple statistical categories while he also mentored two of the program’s all-time leading scorers.

Before his time with Chicago, Pont held a position at Case Western Reserve University (2015-16) as the wide receivers coach and offensive passing game coordinator while also having additional coaching stops at the University of Akron (2012-15), Miami University (Ohio), Colorado State University, University of North Texas, University of North Alabama, and Florida State University. 

Pont earned a bachelor's degree from Miami University (Ohio) in education in 2007 and went on to receive his master's degree in physical education from Florida State University in 2009.