After a four-season hiatus, Mike McHugh reunites with the Bulldog football family in 2015 and will monitor the UMD tight ends position
One of only four individuals to serve on the coaching staffs of both UMD’s two NCAA Division II national championship teams, McHugh was a graduate assistant with the Bulldogs for three seasons (2008-10), overseeing running backs and tight ends in addition to handling the team’s academic coordinator role.
In 2011, he signed on as an assistant coach (offensive line and running game coordinator) at Carleton College and then spent the next two years with the Concordia University-St. Paul staff (running backs and tight ends in 2012, and offensive line in 2013). This past fall, he returned to Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., where he was that Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference institution’s offensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator.
The 28-year old Chicago native originally joined the UMD football program after being employed for one season (2007) as Eureka College’s offensive line coach before being elevated to its offensive coordinator post the ensuing spring. McHugh, who played four years of football at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, got his collegiate coaching start as an intern during his alma mater’s 2007 spring practice.
McHugh attained a B.S. degree in sports science from Loras in 2007 and a Master’s degree in education from UMD four years later. He and his wife, the former Amy Sandstrom (a Bulldog softball graduate assistant coach from 2009-11) were married in July 2014.
