Current position | |
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Title | Head coach |
Team | New England (ME) |
Conference | CCC |
Record | 21–27 |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
2008 | Northeastern (DB) |
2009 | Northeastern (WR) |
2010 | Becker (DC) |
2011–2015 | Becker |
2016–present | New England (ME) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 36–62 (college) 2–6 (club) |
Mike Lichten is an American college football coach. He is the head football coach at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine, a position he has held since the inception of the program in 2017. New England began play in 2018. Lichten was the head football coach at Becker College in Leicester, Massachusetts from 2011 to 2015. He is a native of Newton, Massachusetts, and graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2008. [1]
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Becker Hawks (Eastern Collegiate Football Conference)(2011–2015) | |||||||||
2011 | Becker | 1–9 | 1–6 | 7th | |||||
2012 | Becker | 3–7 | 2–5 | 6th | |||||
2013 | Becker | 3–7 | 2–5 | 6th | |||||
2014 | Becker | 1–9 | 1–6 | 7th | |||||
2015 | Becker | 7–3 | 5–2 | T–3rd | |||||
Becker: | 15–35 | 11–24 | |||||||
New England Nor'easters (Commonwealth Coast Football)(2018–2021) | |||||||||
2018 | New England | 2–7 | 1–5 | T–5th | |||||
2019 | New England | 4–6 | 2–5 | T–5th | |||||
2020–21 | No team—COVID-19 | ||||||||
2021 | New England | 4–5 | 2–4 | 5th | |||||
New England Nor'easters (Commonwealth Coast Conference)(2022–present) | |||||||||
2022 | New England | 5–5 | 3–3 | T–3rd | |||||
2023 | New England | 6–4 | 2–3 | 4th | |||||
2024 | New England | 0–0 | 0–0 | ||||||
New England: | 21–27 | 10–20 | |||||||
Total: | 36–62 |
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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New England Nor'easters (Club team)(2017) | |||||||||
2017 | New England | 2–6 | |||||||
New England: | 2–6 | ||||||||
Total: | 2–6 |
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