Lucas Lueders
Assistant Coach - Offensive Coordinator | 3rd Season
Lucas Lueders joined the Mules football coaching staff as the offensive coordinator starting in the 2020 season.
In his first full season serving as the offensive coordinator for the Mules in 2021, Lueders helped Central Missouri lead the MIAA in passing offense with 3,668 total passing yards and 333.5 yards per game. UCM was fourth in the conference in total yards, compiling 4,869 yards of total offense and 442.6 yards per game.
He coached First Team All-MIAA and Second Team D2CCA All-Super Region 3 wide receiver Cameron Saunders, who ranked second in all of NCAA Division II in receiving with 1,438 yards on 67 catches, in addition to second team selections quarterback Logan Twehous and offensive lineman Dan Sunderman, and honorable mention recipients Arkell Smith (wide receiver), Koby Wilkerson (running back) and Kyle Linville (offensive lineman).
Before joining the Mules, Lueders spent 10 seasons at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, having been the offensive coordinator since 2013. Lueders was also the Morningside recruiting coach and wide receivers coach.
Under Lueders, the Mustangs produced one of the most prolific offensive attacks in NAIA history along with National Championships in the last two seasons. Following the 2018 season, Lueders was named FootballScoop.com's Coordinator of the Year.
The Mustangs won 29 straight games with undefeated seasons in 2018 and 2019. In 2019, the Mustangs scored 52.5 points per game and totaled 563.4 yards of offense per game, both leading the NAIA. Morningside quarterbacks threw for 327.4 yards per game with 54 touchdowns sa the most dynamic passing offense in the country. The Mustangs were the only team in the nation with a top-five passer and rusher this past season. Arnijae Ponder rushed for 134.6 yards per game and Joe Dolincheck threw for 307.4 yards per game.
Lueders and the Mustangs set national records in 2015 with 825 points, averaging 58.9 per game. In 2014 they set an NAIA record with 662.2 yards of total offense per game. In 2014 the Mustangs set a single-game record with 916 yards of offense in win against Hastings.
Morningside led the NAIA in total offense from 2016-19 and were first or second in scoring offense in 2018 and 2019. Three times Morningside had the only offense in the NAIA with 4,000 passing yards and 3,000 rushing yards in the same season, accomplishing that in 2015, 2017 and 2019.
In his time at Morningside, Lueders coached three National Players of the Year and 27 All-Americans. The Mustangs went 108-12 during his tenure with two national championships, three national championship appearances and nine conference championships.
Prior to his decade at Morningside, Lueders was both an offensive and defensive graduate assistant coach at St. Ambrose University. He got his coaching career started as a student assistant at his alma mater, Sterling, in 2008. He earned his Bachelor's Degree in Exercise Science from Sterling in 2008 with a Master's Degree in Organizational Leadership from St. Ambrose in 2011.
Lueders was a two-way player for Sterling and a team captain as a senior when Sterling had their finest season in program history, going 8-2 in 2007.
Lueders is married to his wife, Megan. The couple has two sons Greysen and Davis.
