Dueling Football Coaches
Tim Socha is in his fourth season as head strength and conditioning coach at Boise State. Socha joined the Bronco staff in May of 2006, and in his first season the Broncos finished 13-0 and beat Oklahoma 43-42 in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. Before coming to Boise State, Socha spent two seasons as the assistant director of strength and conditioning for football at the University of Louisville, where he helped the Cardinals to a pair of bowl games and an overall 20-4 record. Socha worked three years at the University of Wyoming, where he served as the assistant strength and conditioning coach for football and was the head strength and conditioning coach for wrestling, track and field and cross country. From 1999-2001 Socha was a graduate assistant at Auburn University, where he assisted with football, baseball and softball and served as the head strength and conditioning coach for men’s golf. Socha is a 1999 graduate of the University of Minnesota with a degree in kinesiology and a minor in coaching. He received a master’s of education in exercise physiology from Auburn in 2001. Socha was a four-year letter winner in football with the Minnesota Gophers (1995-1998) and worked as a student assistant in strength and conditioning after his senior season. In 2009 Socha and wife Jessica had their first daughter, Alexa.
