Steve Ryan (American football)

Steve Ryan
Current position
TitleHead coach
TeamMorningside
ConferenceGPAC
Record240–47
Playing career
1985–1989Wheaton (IL)
Position(s)Linebacker
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
?Ottawa (assistant)
2002–presentMorningside
Head coaching record
Overall240–47
Tournaments36–18 (NAIA playoffs)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
3 NAIA (2018–2019, 2021)
14 GPAC (2005, 2011–2022, 2024)
Awards
NAIA Coach of the Year (2012, 2018, 2019, 2021)
AFCA Region 4 (NAIA) Coach of the Year (2005, 2011)
GPAC Coach of the Year (2004–2005, 2011, 2017)

Steve Ryan is an American college football coach and former player. He is the head football coach for Morningside College, a position he has held since 2002. Ryan has led the Morningside Mustangs to three NAIA Football National Championships, in 2018, 2019, and 2021.

Ryan graduated from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois in 1989 with his undergraduate degree, where he was a four-time letter winner and three-year starter for the Thunder. He earned a master's degree in 1997 from National Louis University. Prior to his hiring at Morningside, Ryan served as an assistant coach at Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas.