Ryan David serves as the Career & Technology Education (CATE) instructor at Atlantic. He came to ACA from Horry Georgetown Technical College where he has served as an Adjunct Professor in the Sports Tourism Department since 2015. He also taught Business, Fundamentals of Computers, Financial Literacy and Careers & Jobs at Whittemore Park Middle School.
In his free time, not that there has been much, David has served as defensive coordinator for the football program at Saint James High since 2014. He takes over as the Armada defensive coordinator for the 2025 season
“When my interview was over, I talked to Mike Lorenz in the hallway for about five minutes about ACA’s philosophy,” David said. “I knew right then I wanted to be part of the ACA family. Small, safe, family centered with high academic standards and elite athletics; that is a school everyone wants to be a part of.”
A graduate of Thiel College in Greenville, Pa., where he was a standout Division III football player, David began his professional career in the corporate world, working his way up to General Manager for Greg Sweet, Inc., in Kingsville, Ohio, where he oversaw financial management and human resources for one of the largest automobile dealership groups in Northeastern Ohio.
A native of Jefferson, Ohio, working in the car dealership business was a natural move. His father, Tom David, owns his own dealership in Jefferson Ohio. But that wasn’t what he wanted to do long-term.
What he really wanted was to be a football coach.
In 2005 he drove down to nearby Chardon, Ohio, where he heard there was an opening for a defensive assistant coach. He got the job, starting a career in coaching that carried him to Hiram College (2006-11) as defensive backs coach. He earned a Master’s in Sports Management from the United States Sports Academy in 2008 while on the staff at Hiram. Since the job at Hiram was part-time, he also worked for his father’s auto group as Human Resources and Finance Manager.
He returned to the high school coaching ranks in 2011, taking over as head coach at Lakeside High in Ashtabula, Ohio.
David left coaching in 2012 when he and his wife moved to Myrtle Beach when she received a job promotion. He returned to coaching in 2014 at Saint James while also working for TD Bank in a Customer Service role and while teaching at Horry Georgetown Tech.
He dipped his toes back into coaching in 2016 when he took on the role of head coach for the Myrtle Beach Freedom in the American Indoor Football League. The team survived for just one season.
