Todd Ryan is in his second full season as a member of the Shippensburg University Football coaching staff in 2025 after joining the squad in the spring of 2024. Ryan instructs the team’s defensive line.
Prior to joining the Raiders, Ryan was a high school football coach for 18 years (2001-03, 2007-23). His most recent coaching stop was Hershey High School, where he coached the linebackers, defensive line and running backs.
Ryan was an assistant coach and later the Head Football Coach at Trinity High School from 2015-20. Additional high school coaching stops include Mechanicsburg (safeties coach), Steel High (offensive line/run game coordinator), Boiling Springs (defensive coordinator and defensive line) and Cedar Cliff (defensive coordinator, defensive line and defensive backs).
In between his high-school coaching stints, Ryan spent 2004-06 at Dickinson College, where he functioned as the defensive line coach and outside linebackers coach. While serving on the Red Devils staff, Ryan mentored two honorable mention All-Americans, four All-Centennial Conference First Team players and three All-Centennial Conference Second Team players.
Ryan also helped guide the Red Devils to two Centennial Conference Championships and one berth in the NCAA Division III Football Playoffs. During the 2006 season, Ryan was an integral instructor to a Red Devil defense that ranked prominently in the national rankings in run defense, total sacks and third-down efficiency.
As a collegian, Ryan played at Pitt from 1989-93. He was a three-year letterman who played linebacker and defensive end under the tutelage of head coaches Mike Godfried, Paul Hackett and Johnny Majors and position coaches Marvin Lewis and Sal Sunseri. After Pitt, Ryan spent two seasons playing defensive end for the Central Penn Piranha, a local semi-professional football team.
In addition to Ryan’s football coaching experience, he has served as an assistant girls’ basketball coach at Mechanicsburg High School from 1998-2003. Ryan was the head coach in the Harrisburg Diocese CYO Girls basketball program from 2012-15 as well as an AAU Girls Basketball coach in 2014 and 2015.
Ryan holds two degrees, having earned a Bachelor of Science in physics from Pitt in 1996 and a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Penn State in 2008. He currently works as a project manager and engineer for the United States Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration.
A Pennsylvania native, Ryan is a Mechanicsburg Area High School graduate. He and his wife Nicole live in Dillsburg. The couple has a son, Joe, and a daughter, Katie. Joe is a member of the SU track & field team.
