Coach Cook is entering his first season at NC Tech as the Safeties Coach. Hailing from Forest City, North Carolina, Coach Cook attended Carson-Newman College and Gardner-Webb University. While at GWU, Coach Cook served as a student assistant to the football staff. While there, Chris was part of two Big South Conference Championship teams While he was there, GWU had three players move onto the NFL. In 2008 he served as the linebacker coach at Pikeville College in Kentucky.