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Head Coach Steve Ryan

Steve Ryan has a 76-28 career record for a .731 winning percentage in nine seasons with the Mustangs to make him one of the most successful head football coaches in Morningside history. Ryan, who has led the Mustangs to seven consecutive NAIA National Championship Series appearances, ranks second in school history in career victories and his .731 winning percentage is the highest victory rate in school history.

Ryan has directed Morningside to a 68-16 record for an .810 winning percentage over the past seven campaigns to make the Mustangs one of the most successful programs in the NAIA.

Ryan was named the 2005 American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Division II Region 4 Coach of the Year and the 2005 Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Coach of the Year after he guided Morningside to its greatest football season in school history during the 2005 campaign.

The Mustangs posted a 12-1 record and were ranked third nationally in the final 2005 regular season NAIA poll. Morningside, the GPAC champion with a perfect 10-0 record, advanced to the semifinals of the NAIA National Playoffs before it lost 42-14 against second-ranked University of Saint Francis. The Mustangs toppled No. 14 St. Ambrose University 58-7 and No. 10 Evangel University 54-21 in the first two rounds of the playoffs.

He led the Mustangs to records of 9-3 and the quarterfinals of the NAIA Playoffs in both the 2006 and 2007 campaigns and his 2008, 2009, and 2010 teams returned to the quarterfinals and finished with records of 10-2 for the second highest victory totals in Morningside history.

Ryan was named the GPAC Coach of the Year in 2004 as well as the 2004 NAIA Football.net National Coach of the Year after he guided the Mustangs to an 8-3 record and their first-ever appearance in the NAIA National Playoffs. The Mustangs reached the second round of the 2006 NAIA Playoffs en route to a 9-3 finish.

Ryan guided Morningside to a 5-5 record in 2002 in his first season with the Mustangs to snap a streak of 15 consecutive losing seasons. The five wins were the college's most victories since the 1985 campaign. Included among the victories was a stunning 24-21 double overtime upset of Wayne State College in the season's opener. Ryan also led the Mustangs to a 28-25 upset win against 2002 GPAC runner-up Doane College, a loss that helped knock the Tigers out of the NAIA National Playoffs.

He was previously an assistant coach at Ottawa University. Ottawa posted a 32-9 record for an .821 winning percentage and twice qualified for the NAIA National Playoffs during Ryan's tenure there.

Ryan is a 1989 graduate of Wheaton College in Illinois, where he was a four-year letterwinner and a three-year starter as a linebacker.

Ryan received his master’s degree from National-Louis University in 1997.