Coaches
Head Coach Dave Loeffler
Email: david.loeffler@district196.org
Coach Loeffler has been on staff as a Science teacher since 1998 for EHS and its golf team. He loves Eagan High for its family support of academics, arts, athletics, and its great students. Besides teaching he is the co-advisor for the Interact Club, and a leader in professional development in his building. He has been apart of 6 conference championships teams with the boys golf team and 6 visits to the state tournament along with a team state championship team.
Mission Statement: As an Eagan boys golf coach it is my mission to help grow young men into players who respect the game and their opponents. Our golfers will play with integrity and honesty with a mindset of growth for oneself and his teammates.
Purpose Statement: I coach to help boys become men of empathy and integrity who will lead, be responsible, and to support his community with action.
Assistant Coach Jim Becker
Email: james.becker@district196.org
Coach Becker has been teaching Economics and Civics at EHS since 1994 and feels fortunate to be a part of this great school. Besides his teaching responsibilities he coached JV Girls Golf for 10 years, Sophomore Football for 10 years, and Boys JV Hockey for 17 years. He has been a Link Crew Coordinator at EHS since 2006. Coach Becker's son Reed is a product of The Eagan Boys Golf Program (thankfully he did not inherit his dad's swing) and is currently employed as a PGA Assistant Golf Professional at Cypress Point in The Monterey Peninsula.
Mission Statement: As a coach, it is my mission to help young men reach their full potential as athletes and people of integrity. There is no better game than golf to teach young men the values of honesty, perseverance, patience, humility, and loyalty to team.
Purpose Statement: I coach with the hope of improving an athletes belief in themselves... as competitors, teammates, friends, and productive citizens. I coach, selfishly, to see kids laugh, experience joy, and deal with struggle while overcoming obstacles... I coach to assist and witness kids grow into men.
JV-B Coach Josh Stacy
Email:
josh.stacy@district196.org
Coach Stacy has been teaching at Eagan High School since 2015. Prior to Eagan, he taught at Centennial High School (MN) and ThunderRidge High School (CO). He currently teaches Economics & AP Economics. Outside of the classroom, Coach Stacy is the Varsity football CB’s coach, SADD advisor, and is leading a group of students this spring break on a trip to England & France. He has previously coached basketball and baseball and is excited to be a part of the Eagan Boys Golf staff.
Mission Statement: To help young athletes achieve their fullest potential in the game of golf by teaching the fundamentals of the game and the importance of honor, integrity, and character.
Purpose Statement: As a coach, to be a positive role model by exhibiting behaviors and beliefs such as – hard work, discipline, respect, sportsmanship, and teamwork. Most importantly, to help young athletes develop into people of high moral character.
These beliefs are best illustrated by the following quote:
“If you treat a man as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as what he ought to be & could be, he will become what he ought to be & could be.”
- Goethe