{"id":68986,"date":"2025-12-23T23:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/68986\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T23:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:47:06","slug":"lackawanna-college-names-mark-ross-as-head-football-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/68986\/","title":{"rendered":"Lackawanna College names Mark Ross as head football coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Misericordia head coach takes over after longtime head coach Mark Duda announced his retirement after more than three decades leading the Falcons.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 The Lackawanna College Athletics Department announcing Mark Ross has been named as the next head football coach for the Lackawanna College Falcons.<\/p>\n<p>Ross is no stranger to Northeast PA. He was the first head coach at Misericordia University when the football program was established back in 2012, leading them to their first-ever bowl appearance in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Ross steps into the big shoes left by Mark Duda, who retired after more than three decades as head coach of the Falcons.<\/p>\n<p>Ross will get right to work as the 2026 Falcons will compete as a four-year institution for the first time in program history in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Misericordia head coach takes over after longtime head coach Mark Duda announced his retirement after more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-68986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}