Recruiting Areas: New York City / New Jersey
Maurice Hart enters his first season as Cortland’s defensive backs coach. He comes to Cortland from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he coached the Engineers’ defensive backs in 2013. Under his tutelage, RPI led the Liberty League in interceptions and ranked 62nd nationally in Div. III in passing efficiency defense.
The previous season, Hart coached cornerbacks at Emporia State University in Kansas. The program led the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association and ranked fifth nationally in interceptions and finished the 2012 season with a school-record 10 wins and a Kanza Bowl championship. Hart also coached defensive backs at Ellsworth Community College in 2011.
Hart earned a bachelor’s degree from North Carolina Central University in 2010 while serving as a coaching intern. He played three seasons at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, Calif., where he ranked among the top safeties in the national junior college ranks. He earned two All-Western State Conference awards and his teams won two bowl games. The Durham, N.C., native started his playing career as a defensive back at Western Michigan University.
