Ted Soenksen, who graduated from Lake Forest in 2006, returned to the College this past winter as an assistant football coach. He will direct the team's offensive linemen in 2011.
Soenksen spent the last two seasons as the offensive line coach and assistant special teams coordinator at Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa. He also served as the program's academic coordinator, video coordinator, and head junior varsity coach. Soenksen was the running backs coach and video coordinator at Central Methodist University in Fayette, Missouri, in 2007 and 2008. His first collegiate coaching job was in 2006 at MacMurray College, where he was the offensive line and tight ends coach.
A four-year letter winner and two-year starter on the offensive line, Soenksen was part of the Foresters' 2002 Midwest Conference championship team that made the program's first trip to the NCAA Tournament. Lake Forest's 28 victories during his career is still the most of any four-year run in program history.
Soenksen is also a 2002 graduate of Vernon Hills High School. The offensive lineman and linebacker earned All-Conference and Honorable Mention All-Area honors his junior and senior seasons. He has worked as a camp coach/counselor at the school each summer since 2003.
"I'm very pleased to have Ted join our staff," began Lake Forest College Head Coach Jim Catanzaro. "We take a lot of pride in what our players accomplish here and after graduation. It's great to have one of them work his way back to the College and help make us a better team."
"It means a lot to me to return to Lake Forest College," stated Soenksen. "I'm grateful to Coach Catanzaro for giving me this opportunity and I look forward to helping the players get the most out of their collegiate careers, just as my coaches did for me."
