University of Dayton Athletics

Flyer football alum Scott Horcher returns to the Dayton football program this season.  Horcher will coach the cornerbacks, the position he started at for UD from 2006 to 2009.

Horcher played on teams that were a combined 33-12.  He was on teams that won the Pioneer Football League championship in 2007 and 2009, and the Flyers won the NCAA Division I-AA Mid-Major (non-scholarship) national championship by defeating Albany in the Gridiron Classic in 2007.  He was the ROTC Cannonball Award as UD’s top newcomer in 2006, and an Academic All-PFL performer.

A high school teacher, Horcher has coached on the football staffs at Dayton area high schools since his graduation from UD in 2010. He was Special Teams Coordinator and coached defensive backs from 2011-15, and was defensive backs coach and then Co-Defensive Coordinator at Springboro High School from 2016-2018.

In addition to his undergraduate degree in Education and Allied Professions from UD, he earned his master's in Fitness and Health Promotion from Concordia University Chicago in 2017 

Scott continues to teach Physical Education and Health at Fairmont.  He and wife Renee live in Miamisburg and have three children Caroline, Camden & Callie.