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Pete Beskid enters his sixth year as an assistant with the Golden Eagle football program in 2024. He has served as the team’s running backs coach since 2020, and will continue to work with that position group this year.
 
Under Beskid, the Golden Eagles have featured a dynamic rushing attack. In 2021 Khalil Owens earned All-PSAC West Second Team honors after a dominant back half of the season, averaging better than 100 rushing and receiving yards per game in the last four weeks of the year. Including in that was a 179-yard rushing game against Edinboro on Nov. 6, the best single-game rushing total for a Golden Eagle since the 2019 season opener. Owens went on to again earn All-PSAC honors in 2022, powering a run-heavy Golden Eagle offense.
 
Beskid worked with the slot receivers and tight ends during the 2019 season, including the likes of Kahliq Muhammad, who scored a team-high eight receiving touchdowns on the year. Golden Eagle tight ends also posted their highest single-season touchdowns total since the 2014 season.
 
Before becoming a coach in the college ranks, Beskid also coached at the high school level locally. He served as an assistant football coach at Clarion-Limestone from 2014-19, and in addition was an assistant for the boys basketball team (2018-19), the boys track & field team (2017-19) and the girls basketball team (2014-16). He got his start as an assistant football coach at Bethel High School in Hampton, Va. in 2013.
 
A native of Blairsville, Pa., Beskid helped the Bobcats to back-to-back conference championships in football, as well as back-to-back district championships in basketball. He was a First Team Heritage Conference wide receiver, and one year led all Indiana County wide receivers in receptions, yards and touchdowns. He was named a Southern Alleghenies Football Coaches Association Ken Lantzy “Finest 40” All-Star.
 
Beskid is a 2012 graduate of Clarion with a Bachelor of Science in Education, majoring in Library Science. He went on to earn his Masters of Educational Leadership from California (Pa.) in 2017, with a concentration in Administrative Program for Principals.