The Coaching Factory Night of Honor

In 1986, an SUU alumnus sports reporter created the moniker "The Coaching Factory" for Southern Utah University because of the success alumni coaches were having while coaching high school athletic teams.

Over the past 26 years "The Coaching Factory' alumni have won 548 state championship and 390 runner-up awards. In addition they have won 19 national championship and 2 coaches are in the National High School Coaches Hall of Fame.

Further, during the 2014 football season, 35 SUU alumni were head coaches, while the University of Utah had 17, BYU had 15, USU 12 and Weber State had 11.

During this school year, 31% of all principals in Utah high schools were SUU alumni, and most of them were former coaches.

On February 6, 2016, SUU and Dr. Steve Lunt (SUU Director of Special Projects and Events) honored alumni coaches who during the 2014-2015 academic year competed for their respective championship. The group was honored during halftime during a Thunderbird men's basketball game.