Cougar Athletics
30 NAIA National Championships
95 GSAC Championships
...and counting

Longtime local high school coach Steve Loumagne is his third season coaching on the collegiate level. He is handling the Cougar quarterbacks for the second straight year after working with the secondary in 2006, his first season on Santa Cruz’s staff.

Loumagne spent the 30 seasons on the local high school level. For 5 years (2001-05) he was the head coach at Western Christian High in Covina, leading the Lancers to the CIF playoffs in 3 seasons. In 2001 he was named the Christian League Coach of the Year after guiding the Lancers to the conference title. Prior to his time at Western Christian, he spent 19 years on the coaching staff at Baldwin Park (Calif.) High, where he is also in his 25th year teaching biology.

A former San Dimas (Calif.) High standout, Loumagne earned the school’s ironman award for playing football, basketball and baseball. He graduated from Cal Poly Pomona with a bachelor’s degree and later earned his master’s in physical education from Azusa Pacific in 1990.

Steve and his wife, Carol, live in La Verne with their 4 children, Greg, Megan, Mike, a sophomore lineman on the Cougar team, and Sara.