HONOLULU – University of Hawai'i head coach Timmy Chang announced the hiring of Jeff Reinebold as director of player development.
 
Reinebold returns to Mānoa with four decades of coaching experience both collegiately and professionally, including more than 20 years in the Canadian Football League. He spent three seasons with the Rainbow Warriors from 2005-07 coaching the specials teams and defensive line.
 
Reinebold earned a reputation as a top-notch recruiter and developer of talent in his first stint with the Rainbow Warriors. Two of his proteges – Ikaika Alama-Francis and Melila Purcell – were selected in the 2007 NFL Draft while another – Lawrence Wilson – earned a free agent contract. He was named among Rivals.com Top 20 recruiters and was the only non-Power 5 coach to make the list.
 
Reinebold began his coaching career at Western Montana College in 1981 and made stops with Dartmouth, Montana, Penn, Rocky Mountain College, and New Mexico before jumping to the CFL. He returned to the collegiate ranks in 2003 with Louisiana Tech and spent seven seasons on June Jones' staff at UH and SMU.
 
In 2012, he returned to the CFL with the Montreal Alouettes and spent seven of the next nine seasons with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Most recently, Reinebold was the quarterbacks and wide receivers coach of the Alabama Airborne of the Major League Football in 2022.
 
The South Bend, Ind., native attended the University of Maine and earned three letters as a defensive back on the Black Bear football team before completing his degree from Indiana in 1981. He graduated cum laude with a B.S. in general studies.