A veteran coach with experience at the highest levels of college football, David Lockwood was hired in February 2021 as the safeties coach for Shawn Clark's App State staff.
 
With three decades of experience spanning the SEC, Big Ten, Pac-12, Big East, Mountain West, Conference USA and Notre Dame, Lockwood helped develop a deep pool of options at safety in 2021.

Kaiden Smith earned All-Sun Belt honors despite missing the first four games as he made a six-month recovery from a torn Achilles and Ryan Huff was named All-Sun Belt honorable mention as the other primary starter.
 
In 2022, Nick Ross led the team with 73 tackles.
  
Lockwood, who has coached defensive backs at most of his stops over the last 20-plus years and was a Big Ten defensive coordinator at Minnesota from 2005-06, was most recently the secondary coach at Nevada from 2018-19.
  
Lockwood has been part of 17 bowl appearances and 11 bowl wins throughout his career, including 14 straight bowl trips from 2002-15.
 
He helped Nevada make back-to-back bowl appearances during his tenure with the Wolf Pack, including a 16-13 Arizona Bowl victory over Arkansas State in 2018, as his secondary recorded three interceptions. In his first season in Reno, Lockwood helped the Wolf Pack's total defense improve by nearly 100 yards from the previous season, while the team ranked third nationally in red-zone defense and 10th in third-down defense.
   
A three-year starter at cornerback for the Mountaineers of West Virginia, his three bowl trips included playing for the 1988 national championship in the Fiesta Bowl. Lockwood had multiple stints on the staff of his alma mater - coaching the Mountaineer cornerbacks in 2008-11 (finished 11th in the nation in pass defense in 2010); the defensive backs in 2000 (finished ninth in the nation with 19 interceptions and won the Music City Bowl); and starting his collegiate career as a graduate assistant in 1989. His pupils Keith Tandy and Brandon Hogan earned All-America accolades under his watch and were two of several of his players to make it to the NFL.
 
Before spending the 2017 season as cornerbacks coach at UNLV, he coached cornerbacks in the Pac-12 at Arizona from 2012-15, helping the Wildcats make four straight bowl trips (with three wins) and capture the most wins in a four-year span in school history. He was the defensive backs coach in one bowl-winning season at Kentucky in 2007.

Having served as defensive coordinator at Minnesota for two of his five seasons in the Twin Cities, Lockwood helped the Golden Gophers reach a bowl game every season from 2002-06. He also coached defensive backs at Notre Dame (2001), Wyoming (1999-2000) and Memphis (1999), as well as the wide receiver position at Memphis (1995-98), James Madison (1994) and Delaware (1990-93). During Lockwood's one season in South Bend, the Irish ranked 10th in the nation in pass defense.
 
A four-year letterman for the Mountaineers, Lockwood earned his bachelor's degree in physical education from West Virginia in 1989. The Pennsylvania native and his wife, Heidi, have three children, Autumn, David Jr. and Jeffrey.
 
LOCKWOOD AT A GLANCE
Coaching Experience
1989: West Virginia (Graduate assistant)
1990-93: Delaware (Wide receivers/Tight ends)
1994: James Madison (Wide receivers/Tight ends)
1995-98: Memphis (Wide receivers)
1999: Memphis (Defensive backs)
1999-00: Wyoming (Defensive backs)
2000: West Virginia (Defensive backs)
2001: Notre Dame (Cornerbacks)
2002-04: Minnesota (Defensive backs/Recruiting coordinator (2003))
2005-06: Minnesota (Defensive coordinator/Linebackers)
2007: Kentucky (Defensive backs)
2008-11: West Virginia (Cornerbacks)
2012-15: Arizona (Cornerbacks)
2017: UNLV (Cornerbacks)
2018-19: Nevada (Secondary)
2021-present: App State (Safeties)

Playing Experience
1985-88: West Virginia (Cornerback)

Alma Mater: West Virginia, 1989
Hometown: Media, Pa.
Birthdate: March 23, 1966 
Wife: Heidi
Daughter: Autumn
Sons: David Jr., Jeffrey
Twitter: @CoachDLockDown
  
Bowl Games Coached
2000: Music City Bowl (West Virginia won)
2002: Music City Bowl (Minnesota won)
2003: Sun Bowl (Minnesota won)
2004: Music City Bowl (Minnesota won)
2005: Music City Bowl (Minnesota lost)
2006: Insight.com Bowl (Minnesota lost)
2007: Music City Bowl (Kentucky won)
2008: Meineke Car Care Bowl (West Virginia won)
2009: Champs Sports Bowl (West Virginia lost)
2010: Gator Bowl (West Virginia lost)
2011: Orange Bowl (West Virginia won)
2012: New Mexico Bowl (Arizona won)
2013: AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl (Arizona won)
2014: Fiesta Bowl (Arizona lost)
2015: New Mexico Bowl (Arizona won)
2018: Arizona Bowl (Nevada won)
2021: Boca Raton Bowl (App State lost)