New Hamline head football coach Chip Taylor didn't have to look far to find somebody to run his offense. He merely glanced across the river and found a guy with two D-III national championships on his resume.
 
Jim Zebrowski, who served as the quarterbacks coach at the University of Minnesota for the past five years, has been named Assistant Head Coach and Offensive Coordinator of the Pipers. "Jim is a guy who knows offensive football as well as anybody," Taylor said. "We are thrilled to have him on our staff. Moreover, he has been part of several successful D-III programs. He knows what it takes to be successful at this level."

Zebowski was a member of a Golden Gopher staff that went to three consecutive bowl games. One of his main projects was the growth of UM signalcaller Mitch Leidner, who advanced from running the scout team to accounting for 2,250 and 21 touchdowns in 2014. Included in those totals: 10 rushing scores, which is tied for first in school quarterback history.
 
The Ohio native, who played his college ball at D-III power Mount Union, has been a football coach for a quarter century. He spent six years as an offensive coordinator at two Ohio Schools before moving to Southern Illinois as a graduate assistant. Later, he was moved to a fulltime role at SIU, where he coached the tight ends, wide receivers and quarterbacks.
 
He has a decade of experience coaching at the D-III level.  Zebrowski served as the offensive coordinator at Millikin from 2000-03. In 2004, he became the head coach at Lakeland (Wis.) in the Illini-Badger Conference. The Muskies went 28-12 overall in his four years at the helm, won a pair of conference titles and advanced to the NCAA D-III playoffs for the first time in school history.
 
Zebrowski then moved to longtime D-III power Wisconsin-Whitewater. In three seasons as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, the Warhawks went 42-3 overall during his time and advanced to the NCAA D-III title game every season, winning two titles and finishing second once. Zebrowski was named the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association Assistant Coach of the Year and the FootballScoop.com Division III Coordinator of the Year in 2009.
 
In 2010, Zebrowski joined the staff at Northern Illinois as the quarterbacks coach. There he tutored Chandler Harnish, who was a first team All-MAC choice and a NFL draft pick of the Indianapolis Colts. He also laid the foundation for Harnish's backup, Jordan Lynch, who went on to finish third in the Heisman Trophy in 2013 and was named to the All-American team.
 
Lynch is now the quarterback for the Grey Cup champion Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League.
 
Zebrowski, who assumes his duties immediately, will get to see his new charges on the field for a week of spring practices. The Pipers then return to campus in August to prep for the 2016 season that begins on Saturday, September 3 against Crown at Klas Field.
 
Creativity and innovation in teaching and learning are the hallmark of Hamline University—home to 4,000 undergraduate and graduate students. At Hamline, students collaborate with professors invested in their success. They are challenged inside and outside of the classroom to create and apply knowledge in local and global contexts, while cultivating an ethic of civic responsibility, social justice, and inclusive leadership and service.
 
Hamline is the top-ranked private university in its class in Minnesota, according to U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1854, Hamline also is Minnesota's first university and among the first coeducational institutions in the nation.