Todd Patridge joined the Fighting Saints in July of 2025 as an assistant coach for the football team to the defensive line. The 2025-26 season will mark Patridge’s first year as assistant coach.
At St. Francis, Patridge assists the program in coordination of practice plans, individual player development, assisting in training sessions, and implementation of game strategies.
Prior to joining the Fighting Saints staff, Patridge spent three seasons (2019-2021) as the head coach/defensive coordinator for the club team at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as well as the 2025 spring season as an assistant football coach at Judson University (Ill.) as the Eagles’ linebackers coach. While at UWM, he led the Panthers’ 2021 squad to the program’s first conference championship and first number one ranked scoring defense in the team’s history.
Patridge began his coaching career in 2007 as the defensive coordinator/linebackers coach at Bartlett High School. In 2014, he accepted the role as the running backs coach for the Leyden Lions semi-professional football club, before breaking into the college ranks as the quarterbacks coach later that same year for the club program at Loyola University of Chicago.
In 2017, Patridge served as the assistant defensive coach to the middle linebackers at College of DuPage where he helped lead the Chaparrals in securing the 2017 NJCAA Championship at the Red Grange Bowl. His success at COD led him back to Loyola Chicago in 2018 where he accepted the position of offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for its club team.
In 2020, Patridge moved back to the semi-professional ranks with the Wisconsin Hitmen in Milwaukee, Wis. as an assistant defensive coach to the linebackers. After one season, he served in the same role for the Racine Raiders for the 2021 season.
From 2022-2024, Patridge served as both defensive line and linebackers coach at various high schools, including producing multiple all-conference performers at Hope Academy Chicago (2024), Metea Valley High School (2023) and Wheaton North High School (2022).
