Shippensburg University Athletics

David Cook is in his first full season as an assistant football coach at Shippensburg University in 2025 after joining the staff during spring drills. He serves as the running backs coach.
 
Cook boasts seven years of coaching experience at the high school level. He most recently spent the 2023 season as a wide receivers coach and assistant defensive backs coach at Carlisle High School. With the Thundering Herd, Cook also assisted with offensive installs, film breakdown and game planning.
 
For four seasons, Cook was a running backs coach and special teams coordinator at Harrisburg High School. He mentored multiple Cougars who earned All-Mid-Penn Commonwealth honors. In his first season with the Cougars, Harrisburg finished as the runner-up in the 2018 PIAA ‘6A’ state championships.
 
Cook began his coaching career in 2017 at Trinity High School, where he worked with the wide receivers.
 
He is familiar with the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC), having played collegiately at Lock Haven. In his four seasons on the field as a wide receiver with the Bald Eagles, Cook totaled 111 receptions and 1,335 receiving yards and caught 10 touchdowns. He appeared in 41 games spanning 2012-15 and was among the team’s Top 3 in receptions in each of his final three seasons.
 
As a junior and senior, Cook started every game at wide receiver. He led the team with a career-high 47 receptions as a junior, totaling 530 yards and four touchdowns. His senior season resulted in 40 receptions – second-most on the team – to go along with a career-high 553 receiving yards and four touchdowns.
 
As a prep athlete, Cook played in the Mid-Penn at Boiling Springs. 

Cook graduated from Lock Haven in 2015 with a degree in sports administration.