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Terry Szucs Defensive Backs     Lock Haven State College '75   14th season

Terry Szucs, a former player and a 1975 graduate of Lock Haven University, will begin his 14^th season coaching at LHU. 

Szucs enters his tenth season coordinating the defense and will coach the defensive backs. This will be his eighth season overall as defensive backs coach. He served his first four seasons on the offensive side of the ball.

Szucs came to Lock Haven from Dodge City Community College in Dodge City, Kan., where he served as the head coach during the 1994 and 1995 seasons.  Szucs had been at DCCC for 12 years, beginning in 1983.  During that span, he served as defensive coordinator, line coach, linebacker coach and secondary coach, as well as being an instructor in the school's health and physical education department.  Szucs began his coaching career right here at Lock Haven, serving as a volunteer assistant coach from 1976-77, helping the offensive line.

The next year, he moved on to South Dakota State University, where he was a graduate assistant coach and an instructor in the health and physical education department.  His first full-time coaching position came in 1978 when he was named offensive line coach at Westmar College in LeMars, Iowa, a position he held for three seasons. 

Following his tenure at Westmar, he moved on to Wayne State College and then Washburn University, where he was the offensive line coach for two seasons before moving to Dodge City .

Szucs is in charge of recruiting the Northeastern Pennsylvania corridor which includes District 2 and District 4.

As a player at Lock Haven, Szucs was a four-year letterman for the Bald Eagles from 1972-75.  He capped off his career in fine fashion by being named to the 1975 All-PSAC First Team as an offensive guard.