Dan Soria

Head Coach Indiana University Northwest

Years Coaching - 7 years

Dan Soria enters his first year as the RedHawks Head Baseball Coach. Soria was an assistant coach for Indiana University Northwest during the spring of 2009 and finished the season as the programs interim head coach. During the summer of 2009 Soria help bring 19 new recruits to the baseball program.

After the 2003 season at Chicago State Soria played two years of professional baseball making the opening day roster for the Gary SouthShore RailCats in the Northern League. Soria was a starting pitcher for the RailCats and in his two seasons of pitching took over the franchise record in almost every pitching category including starts, innings pitched, strikeouts, and complete games. Soria also took part in the first professional baseball game played at the U.S. Steel yard home of the Gary SouthShore RailCats in May of 2003.

In the summer of 2005 Coach Soria started an under 18 Babe Ruth baseball team in his hometown of East Chicago. The East Chicago Titans under the direction of Coach Soria started their inaugural season 12-0 and ended the season 32-8 with a trip to the Babe Ruth Regional Championship game in Cleveland Ohio.

Soria also works in East Chicago, as a police officer with the rank of Master Patrolman. Coach Soria resides in Crown Point, IN with his wife Loretta and their daughter Isabella. Loretta Soria is the Woman's Basketball Associate Head Coach at Indiana University Northwest.