Football
Owens, Justin
Justin Owens
- Title:
- Director, Recruiting
- Email:
- Justin.Owens2@unt.edu
- Alma Mater:
- West Texas A&M, 2004
Justin Owens, also known as 'Coach O', is a longtime Dallas-Fort Worth high school coach. He joined the UNT Football staff in December 2022 as Director of Recruiting.
He served as running backs coach, special teams coordinator and recruiting coordinator at Ferris High School in 2021 and 2022 and has more than 15 years of high school coaching and evaluation experience in the area.
His coaching career started at Dallas Spruce out of college as the offensive line coach from 2004-07 before being elevated to offensive coordinator in 2008. Owens then served as the running backs coach and recruiting coordinator at Dallas Madison from 2009-10 before returning to his alma mater at Kimball to be the offensive coordinator from 2010-12. His last stop in his first stint as a coach was at Prime Prep where he served as the offensive line coach from 2013-14.
Owens then took seven years off as a high school coach to instead host "Offertunity" exposure camps around the state of Texas for high school athletes where he helped garner exposure for thousands of young players.
In that time, he also served a brief stint as the offensive coordinator for DFW 7-on-7 power Texas Flex where he coached multiple All-Americans and highly-rated prospects.
A Dallas native, Owens played at Cisco Junior College before transferring to West Texas A&M and graduated in 2004.
2004-07: Spruce High School, offensive line
2008: Spruce High School, offensive coordinator
2009-10: Dallas Madison, running backs coach/recruiting coordinator
2010-12: Kimball High School, offensive coordinator
2013-14: Prime Prep, offensive line coach
2021: Ferris High School, running backs coach/recruiting coordinator
2022: Ferris High School, wide receivers coach/recruiting coordinator
2023-: UNT, director of recruiting
He served as running backs coach, special teams coordinator and recruiting coordinator at Ferris High School in 2021 and 2022 and has more than 15 years of high school coaching and evaluation experience in the area.
His coaching career started at Dallas Spruce out of college as the offensive line coach from 2004-07 before being elevated to offensive coordinator in 2008. Owens then served as the running backs coach and recruiting coordinator at Dallas Madison from 2009-10 before returning to his alma mater at Kimball to be the offensive coordinator from 2010-12. His last stop in his first stint as a coach was at Prime Prep where he served as the offensive line coach from 2013-14.
Owens then took seven years off as a high school coach to instead host "Offertunity" exposure camps around the state of Texas for high school athletes where he helped garner exposure for thousands of young players.
In that time, he also served a brief stint as the offensive coordinator for DFW 7-on-7 power Texas Flex where he coached multiple All-Americans and highly-rated prospects.
A Dallas native, Owens played at Cisco Junior College before transferring to West Texas A&M and graduated in 2004.
2004-07: Spruce High School, offensive line
2008: Spruce High School, offensive coordinator
2009-10: Dallas Madison, running backs coach/recruiting coordinator
2010-12: Kimball High School, offensive coordinator
2013-14: Prime Prep, offensive line coach
2021: Ferris High School, running backs coach/recruiting coordinator
2022: Ferris High School, wide receivers coach/recruiting coordinator
2023-: UNT, director of recruiting
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