Jeff Cummins enters his 20th season as head coach of the Axemen.

In 2019, Cummins won his sixth AUS Championships as head coach of the Axemen with an undefeated 8-0 regular season record and a 31-1 AUS championship win over the Bishop's Gaiters.

In addition to his 2019 AUS championship win, Cummins was named the 2019 AUS coach of the year.

In 2017, Cummins was named the AUS and U SPORTS Coach of the Year after posting a 6-2 record. It was Cummins’ second time being named the National Coach of the Year. John Huard, in 1981, is the only other Acadia winner of the Frank Tindall Trophy since it was first presented back in 1969.

In the summer of 2018, Cummins was the Defensive coordinator with the U19 Team Canada program that won gold in the IFAF U19 World Championship in Mexico City.

Cummins has also been named the AUS Coach of the Year in 2004, 2005, 2011, 2012, 2017, and 2019 along with being honored as the National U SPORTS (CIS) Coach of the Year in 2011 (and 2017).

Cummins captured his first of six AUS Football Championships in 2005. To date (start of the 2022 regular season) Cummins has 76 wins and 69 losses, including regular season and playoffs, while leading the Axemen.

Cummins has represented Canada on the World stage previously working with the 2009 Junior National team, the Senior team in 2011, and the 2015 Senior Men’s National team.

As a defensive end and tackle, Cummins played in the Canadian Football League on various teams including the Las Vegas, Toronto, and Ottawa, and finishing with Hamilton Tiger-Cats, where he captured a Grey Cup in 1999, all of which followed his graduation from the University of Oregon Ducks in 1993.

A native of Harbor City, California, Jeff makes Wolfville his home with his wife Karen, son Joshua, and daughter Sydney.