Doug Socha
American football player and coach
Doug Socha (born c. 1975) is an American football coach. He is the head football coach for Lenoir–Rhyne University, a position he has held since 2024. Socha led the Keiser Seahawks to back-to-back NAIA Football National Championship title games in 2022 and 2023: winning in 2023.
Playing career and education
Socha played college football for Los Angeles Valley College and Mesa State as a defensive back. In 1999, he graduated from California State University, Northridge.
Coaching career
In 1997, Socha was an assistant football coach for Grand Junction High School. From 1998 to 1999 Socha was the defensive backs coach for the College of the Canyons. In 2000, Socha joined Buffalo as a graduate assistant before becoming the team's wide receivers coach from 2001 to 2005.
Socha spent four years—2006 to 2009—as the offensive coordinator for American Heritage School in Delray Beach, Florida, before being promoted to head football coach in 2010. In August 2012, Socha was hired as the inaugural head football coach for Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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