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Phone: 712-274-5283
E-Mail: ryan@morningside.edu
Steve Ryan has a 46-22 career record for a .676 winning percentage in six 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 four consecutive NAIA National Playoff appearances, ranks third in school history in career victories and his .676 winning percentage is the highest victory rate in school history.
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 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.
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.
Assistant Coach Josh Gehring
Phone: 712-274-5326
E-Mail: gehring@morningside.edu
 Offensive coordinator Josh Gehring will be in his second season with the Mustangs in 2008.
Gehring coached one of the NAIA's most prolific offensive units during the 2007 season when the Mustangs averaged 36.1 points and 405.3 yards total offense per game.
Gehring joined the Mustangs from Concordia University in River Forest, Ill., where he was the defensive coordinator for the NCAA Division III Cougars during the 2006 campaign. He was the architect of a Concordia defense that topped the Illini-Badger Football Conference in defensive takeaways.
He has also been an assistant coach at Missouri State University, Western Kentucky University, Manchester College, Ottawa University, and Rock Bridge High School in Missouri, and was the wide receivers coach with the Swedish-American Football Federation.
Gehring, a native of Mounds, Okla., is a 1999 graduate of Ottawa University, where he was a three-year letterwinner as a quarterback, defensive back, and punt returner. He helped lead the Braves to a Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) championship in 1997 and the school's first-ever appearance in the NAIA National Playoffs. He played quarterback for two first-division European teams following his collegiate career. He played for the Esbjerg Hurricanes of Denmark and the Ytown Rockets of Ystad, Sweden.
Gehring received a masters degree in sports administration from Ball State University in 2004.
Assistant
Coach Dan Carpenter
Phone: 712-274-5281
E-Mail: carpenter@morningside.edu
 Dan
Carpenter is in his fourth season on the Mustangs' coaching
staff. He coaches the Mustangs' defensive lineman after serving as a wide receivers coach during the 2004 campaign.
He came to Morningside
from Ohio State University, where he was a student intern
from 2001 to 2003 for one of the most prestigious collegiate
football programs in the nation. While with the Buckeyes,
Carpenter worked with the defensive line and assisted with
scouting reports and film breakdowns. He was a member of the
coaching staff for Ohio State's 2002 national championship
team.
Carpenter, a 2004
graduate of Ohio State, was a volunteer assistant coach at
Le Mars Community High School from 1998 to 2000, where he
helped lead the Bulldogs to a pair of Class 3A state playoff
appearances.
Assistant
Coach Casey Jacobsen
Phone: 712-274-5281
E-Mail: jacobsen@morningside.edu
 Casey
Jacobsen is in his fourth season with the Mustangs. He is the
team's linebackers coach. Jacobsen is also the athletic department's equipment manager.
Jacobsen previously
coached at Buena Vista University, where he was the Beavers'
defensive line coach during the 2003 season and an assistant
offensive line coach during the 2002 campaign.
He is a 2002 graduate of Buena Vista,
where he was a four-year letterwinner and a three-year starter
as an offensive center.
Assistant Coach Jared Ocker
Phone: 712-274-5311
 Jared Ocker is in his first season with the Mustangs. Ocker, who serves as the Mustangs' runnings back coach, was an assistant coach at Maple Valley/Anthon-Oto High School for the previous four years.
Ocker is also the head baseball coach at Sioux City East High School, where he led the Black Raiders to a 26-14 record during the 2007 campaign. He was the head baseball coach at Maple Valley/Anthon-Oto in 2006 and was also an assistant boy's basketball and assistant men's golf coach at the school.
He is a 2001 graduate of Midland Lutheran College, where he was a honorable mention All-GPAC baseball pitcher and the NAIA National Pitcher of the Week during the 2001 season. He previously attended Morningside and was a member of the Mustangs' baseball team.
Assistant Coach Shawn Robinson
Phone: 712-274-5311
 Shawn Robinson joins the Mustangs' coaching staff following a standout playing career with the Mustangs. Robinson, who graduated from Morningside in 2007 with a major in pyschology counseling, will coach the Mustangs' wide receivers.
As a player, Robinson was a three-year starter in the Mustangs’ offensive line. He was named to the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) inaugural NAIA Coaches’ All-America Team following his senior campaign and was a two-time first-team All-Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) selection. Robinson helped lead Morningside to a 29-7 record for a .806 victory rate and three consecutive NAIA National Playoff appearances during his three years as a starter.
Following his collegiate career, Robinson was selected to play for Team USA in the World Championship of American Football and helped lead the team to a 23-20 double overtime victory against Japan in the International Federation of American Football (IFAF) championship game. Robinson was later selected to the 24-player World Championship of American Football All-Star Team released by the IFAF.
Assistant Coach Nathan Turner
Phone: 712-274-5359
 Nathan Turner is in his first season with the Mustangs. Turner is the Mustangs' outside linebackers coach.
He was previously the running backs coach and video coordinator at Eastern Oregon University.
Turner graduated from Eastern Oregon in 2004. He was one of the Mountaineers' team captains in 2003. That season he was the recipient of Eastern Oregon's Iron Man Strength and Big Team Little Me awards.
Andrew Mather
Phone: 402-880-3676
 Andrew Mather is in his third season with the Mustangs' coaching staff. He is responsible for the coordination of film exchange.
Mather, a senior from Papillion, Neb., is majoring in elementary education and special education.
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