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Steve Briggs, Head Coach
(570) 372-4123 - briggs@susqu.edu
Steve Briggs continues
to collect accolades
and victories at
Susquehanna University.
Briggs, 45, who enters his 18th season
as head coach of
the Crusader football team, has accumulated
a 96-76 record during his tenure to stand as
the winningest coach in school history.
He has also earned the respect of his peers,
as he has served on both the NCAA South
Region Advisory Committee and as chair of
the Middle Atlantic Conference football
coaches committee.
Briggs has won seven or more games five
times in his 17 seasons, including each of
his first three seasons.
In addition, Briggs has coached 172 games
at Susquehanna, more than any coach in
program history, while his 17 seasons at the
helm of the Crusaders match the 17 years
coached by Amos Alonzo Stagg, Jr. from
1935 through 1954.
In 1999, Briggs was honored as the MAC
Commonwealth League Coach of the Year
for the first time after guiding the Crusaders
to their first outright Commonwealth League
title in school history.
Briggs guided his 1991 team to the NCAA
Division III South Region Championship and
the program's first-ever berth in the national
semifinals before settling for an 11-2 record
which tied the school record for wins in a
season. He followed that up with a 9-1 campaign
in 1992, coming up just five points
short of a perfect season and another NCAA
playoff berth.
Youthful enthusiasm has been a key ingredient
to Briggs’ formula for success. Watch him for just a couple of minutes at
practice and it won’t take long to see the
drive and energy which have made him such
a consistent winner.
A sign of the impact that Briggs has had
on his teams is the fact that a number of his
former players have gone on to become successful
high school coaches over the last
few years.
Before becoming the 29th head coach in
Susquehanna history in 1990, Briggs served
as the chief defensive assistant for his predecessor
William “Rocky” Rees. Prior to
joining the Susquehanna staff, he coached
the outside linebackers and strong safeties
at Division I-AA Lehigh University in 1987.
He was also the graduate assistant for two
years at the Division I-AA University of Richmond,
coaching the inside linebackers in
1985 and the tight ends the following year.
Before Richmond, Briggs coached the receivers
at Bowdoin College in Brunswick,
Maine, for a year. He also coached the secondary
for the freshman squad at Springfield
College while an undergraduate at the
Massachusetts school.
Briggs earned a bachelor of science degree
in health and fitness from Springfield in
1984 and lettered in varsity football all four
years. He earned his master of science degree
in sports management from Richmond
in 1987.
In addition to coaching, Briggs is an assistant
director of athletics at Susquehanna,
a title he added in the fall of 2003.
He and his wife, Christina, reside in
Selinsgrove with their 16-year-old son, Cory,
and 13-year-old daughter, Casey.
2007 Assistant Coaches
 Dan Alderson, Linebackers
Brad Fordyce, Defensive Coordinator
Bob Jazwinski, Defensive Line
Andy Kolak, Offensive Line
Dan Mehleisen, Defensive Backs
Bob Pittello, Offensive Line
John Salvatore, Outside Linebackers
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