Twitter: @CoachYoch
Matt Yoches enters his 10th year as Director of Football Operations for the RedHawks' football program. His responsibilities include scheduling team travel, coordinating team housing and dining, scheduling summer football camps, and overseeing compliance. Yoches also coordinates community service opportunities and assists with player development. He oversees and creates the yearly football budget. He is the liaison for NFL scouts as well.
Yoches had been a part of the GVSU football program since 2000 as both an assistant coach and player, most recently working with the running backs in 2014 and 2015. Prior to that, he coached the defensive line, including six years under Coach Martin (2004-09). While at Grand Valley State, Yoches was a part of setting the longest winning streak in NCAA D-II history as the Lakers rolled off 40-consecutive wins from 2005 through 2007. He and the Lakers won back-to-back national championships in 2005 and 2006 and finished runner-up in 2009. He coached 17 All-GLIAC performers and six All-America selections during his time as a Laker, as well as defensive tackle Mike McFadden, who earned the Gene Upshaw Award for the nation's top interior lineman in 2005 and 2006.
Yoches turned in a stellar four-year career for the Lakers on the defensive line (2000-2003). A four-year letterwinner for the Lakers on the defensive front, Yoches was part of GVSU's back-to-back National Championship teams in 2002-03. He received All-GLIAC plaudits and was named to the CoSIDA District IV All-Academic squad as a senior. GVSU was 48-6 during his career with two National Championships and two GLIAC titles.
A Dearborn Heights, Mich. native, Yoches graduated from Grand Valley State in 2004 with a movement science degree and finished his master's in Education in 2014. He and his wife, the former Adrienne Lubeck, are the proud parents of Sam and Dani.
