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 Mark Ridgley

Coaching ∙ New Brighton

For two decades, Mark Ridgley's coaching experience has been associated with multiple teams across college, the NFL, and overseas to acquire his impressive and well-traveled resume.

Mark played football for New Brighton High School. Playing both wide receiver and defensive back, Mark earned all-conference honors as a first-team wide receiver. After graduating high school in 2004, Mark coached football at the University of Pittsburgh, where he served the Panthers for four years as an undergraduate student manager and two years as a graduate assistant. At Pitt, Mark was a defensive assistant coach who worked with the defensive backs.

Mark continued work on the defensive side of the ball at Central Michigan University, where he coached the defensive backs and defensive line during the 2010 and 2011 seasons.

Starting in 2012, Mark coached for the NFL's Chargers franchise, working with head coaches Norv Turner, Mike McCoy, and Anthony Lynn. Over eight seasons with the Chargers in San Diego and Los Angeles, Mark started as a coaching administrative assistant, then was promoted to newly created positions of special assistant to the offense and special assistant to the head coach. Mark also served the Chargers as offensive assistant coach, assistant offensive line coach, and running backs coach, with a backfield that included Austin Ekeler and Melvin Gordon. During his tenure with the Chargers, Mark also coached running backs for the East team in the 2020 East/West Shrine Bowl.
Starting in 2024, Mark has coached in Europe, as special teams coordinator and defensive line coach for the Madrid Bravos, and, in 2025, as head coach of the Hungarian-based Fehérvár Enthroners in the European League of Football. In 2026, Mark was hired as head coach of the Düsseldorf, Germany-based Rhein Fire for their inaugural season in the American Football League Europe.

Mark has received tremendous family support throughout his coaching journey, especially from his wife Casey and his two daughters, Carson and Charlotte.

− Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles Chargers