Berkeley High School leadership is excited to name Eric Lodge as the Head Football Coach for the Stags. Lodge was selected after multiple rounds of interviews with highly qualified candidates from across the southeast.
Lodge spent the past three years serving as the head football coach at Seminole High School in Florida, one of the largest schools in the state with over 4,000 students. Boasting an overall win/loss record of 32-4, Lodge led Seminole High to capture the 2020 8A State Championship, the first undefeated state champion in central Florida history.
From 2015 to 2020, Lodge served Seminole High as their defensive coordinator, capturing three district championships in four seasons, and improving points allowed per game every season to just 11.1 allowed in 2019. Prior to his time at Seminole High, Lodge worked as the head track and field coach for the boys and girls teams, the defensive coordinator, and varsity defensive backs coach at University High School.
“We are extremely pleased with the results of our multi-state search, which led us to the highly accomplished Eric Lodge,” said BHS Principal Katie Butcher. “It is certainly a testament to the school and community that Lodge has elected to leave a standout program to join our Stag family. We look forward to what he will accomplish to support our student-athletes in the classroom and on the field, as his record of having 35 student athletes receive college scholarships in just two full years of graduating seniors illustrates that his support and focus goes beyond the Friday night lights.”
Lodge’s role as the head football coach is secondary to his commitment to serve as an educator on the high school staff. Lodge holds both a Bachelor of Science, Sport and Fitness and a Master of Science, Sport and Exercise Science from the University of Central Florida, and will serve the school as a physical education teacher and head football coach.
“My family and I are blessed and excited to join the Berkeley family and the Moncks Corner community,” Coach Lodge said. “We are eager to get to work and get Stag nation back to where we belong. Go Stags!”
Coach Lodge will begin his new role on March 8, 2023.