Claremore High School head football coach Jarrett Hurt will be inducted into the 2023 Oklahoma Coaches Association Hall of Fame, the OCA announced recently.
The induction ceremony will be held at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 22 at the Southern Hills Marriott Hotel in Tulsa. Hurt will be one of 10 inductees.
Hurt also serves as CHS assistant athletic director. He began his coaching career as an assistant at Broken Arrow High School from 1996-1999. He took the head football coaching gig at Skiatook High School in 2000, where he led the Bulldogs to the playoffs thrice in six years and was named Region 7 football coach of the year in 2000.
Hurt arrived in Claremore in 2008 as varsity defensive coordinator, a post which he owned eight seasons before he was bumped up to head coach in 2016.
Hurt will join his father, Jay Hurt, a Dewey High School coaching legend and his father-in-law, Ron Etheridge, a Sequoyah Claremore great in the OCA Hall of Fame. Jay Hurt was inducted in 1999. Etheridge was inducted in 2001.
Hurt attended Wyandotte High School, where he played for his father and was an all-state football selection in 1990. He also was a state champion in the 100m hurdles later that spring.
Hurt earned a master’s degree in secondary school administration from Pittsburg State University in 1996.
He leads a small group at Claremore First Baptist Church. Mark Dicus, a 2019 OCA Hall of Fame inductee and Muskogee High School head softball coach, attends.
“[Hurt] is a tremendous motivator and coach,” Dicus said, “but even a better man. Can’t think of anyone more deserving than coach Hurt.”
Hurt has been married to wife LaRonna for 23 years. They have two daughters, Jayla and Jerreka.
