Darrel Parker enters his second season as Head Coach at NJC. In his first season, Parker was named the Region IX and the South Sub Region Coach of the Year after he led the Plainswomen to a 25-7 finish. All of Northeastern's 7 losses in 2006-07 were to top 15 ranked NJCAA teams. The 25 wins in the season was the second best in school history behind 29 victories in 2001-02. The Plainswomen finished with a 3.11 team grade point average.

Parker coached the Sterling High School Lady Tigers for 27 years prior to joining NJC. He resigned as coach of the Lady Tigers in June of 2005 after leading Sterling to it's first Class 4A state title in March of that year. From 1979-2005, Parker posted a career mark of 465-132. He had only one losing season, that coming in 1981 when the Lady Tigers were 9-11. In 10 seasons Sterling won 20 or more games as well as capturing 10 conference championships.

Parker's teams won 15 district titles and he has coached 22 state qualifying teams. Sterling has been to the Final Four of the state basketball tournament 11 times under the direction of Parker, and the Lady Tigers were state runners-up three times before Sterling won the title in 2005.

He has also garnered numerous conference and state Coach of the Year honors, and was named Regional Coach of the Year for the 2004-05 season by the National High School Athletic Coaches Association for girl's basketball.

Parker grew up in Cozad, Nebraska and now lives in Sterling with his wife, Jonelle and their two daughters and one son. Daughter Sara is a junior at CSU while son, Shay, is a freshman at NJC, and daughter, Shelly, is in high school.