HONOLULU – University of Hawai'i head coach Timmy Chang announced Nick Locher as the football team's new safeties coach.
 
Locher joined the program in 2023 as a graduate assistant, assisting with the secondary.
 
"Coach Locher is young, hungry, and wants to be a great coach," Chang said. "He's traveled across the country to coach football and now he gets to call Hawai'i home."
 
Prior to UH, he coached the safeties at Valdosta High School in Georgia in 2022. Previously, the Owensboro, Ky., native was a graduate assistant at Western Kentucky from 2020-21. He began his coaching career at Owensboro High in Kentucky in 2019.
 
At Voldasta, Locher tutored a defensive secondary that recorded 17 interceptions in 11 games and keyed a defense that topped GHSA 7A in scoring defense  (7.6 ppg).
 
In his first stint at the collegiate level with WKU, Locher helped coach five defensive backs who were named 2020 All-Conference USA. WKU's defense finished 28th in the country in total defense and third in pass break-ups that same season. In 2021, the Hilltoppers finished second in the nation in both Interceptions (21) and forced turnovers (31).
 
With Owensboro High, Locher coached the running backs on an offense that scored 37.3 points per game and reached the state semifinals with a 12-2 record.
 
Locher received his bachelor's degree at WKU in recreation administration in 2019 and a master's in physical education in 2022.