Grant Soffer

Davenport University Athletics

DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY PANTHERS

Title

Assistant Coach

Grant Soffer joined the Davenport University men’s basketball staff in October 2024.

Prior to DU, he was the assistant men's basketball coach at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (2022-2024).

Soffer has also served as an assistant coach at Defiance College in 2021-22, at Northwest Kansas Technical College for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons and at the New Mexico Military Institute in 2018-19.

At Defiance, Soffer helped lead the Yellow Jackets to an 11-11 overall record, including a 9-6 mark in Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference action. Defiance reached the HCAC Tournament as the #3 seed. The Yellow Jackets had two players recognized by the HCAC on the All-Conference Teams at the end of the season.

While at both Northwest Kansas Technical College and NMNI, Soffer assisted with recruiting, skill development, and scouting while covering academic eligibility and compliance.

Soffer worked as a graduate assistant coach for NCAA DII Western New Mexico University where he assisted with recruiting, running workouts, and video breakdowns while also conducting the film exchange with opponents and monitoring the team's academic progress.

Outside of the college ranks, Soffer has worked as an assistant coach with Believe Sports Academy and the New York Rens AAU team. He also has coached various collegiate summer camps including ones held by Drexel, St. John’s, Colorado, Colorado St, North Texas, North Dakota State, Gonzaga, LMU, BYU, San Diego State, UCLA, and Stanford.

Soffer earned his bachelor's degree in sport management from St. John's University in 2016 and his M.B.A. from Western New Mexico University in 2019. While a student at St. John's, Soffer interned with the NBA Summer League and with Pallacanestro Virtus Roma, a professional basketball team in the Lega Basket Serie A, where he assisted the club’s general manager in scouting and compliance.