Cal Poly Athletics Hall of Fame
- Induction:
- 2002
LeCharls McDaniel was a cornerback on Cal Poly's 1980 NCAA Division II National Championship football team.
A four-year letterman, he intercepted 13 passes and scored three touchdowns in his Mustang career. He was team captain two seasons, earning honorable mention All-American honors in 1980, and graduated from Cal Poly with a bachelor's degree in social science in 1981.
A graduate of Seaside High School in Monterey County, LeCharls went on to play in the National Football League -- two years each with the Washington Redskins and New York Giants. He was a member of the Redskins' Super Bowl XVII championship team and the Giants' squad which reached the playoffs in 1984.
LeCharls' coaching career began in 1986 at Hartnell College in Salinas, Calif., and he has also coached at Cal Poly, Oregon State and Cal along with coaching stints in the NFL for the then-San Diego Chargers, Arizona Cardinals and Washington Redskins. He was an assistant coach at San Diego State from 1994-96, 2002 and 2005-14 and was wide receivers coach at the University of San Diego in 2015.
During his career, he has coached in seven Bowl Games, five with San Diego State and two with Oregon State. With the Aztecs he coached in the 2014 Poinsettia Bowl, the 2013 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, the 2012 Poinsettia Bowl, the 2011 New Orleans Bowl, and the 2010 Poinsettia Bowl. With Oregon State he coached in the 2004 Insight Bowl and the 2003 Las Vegas Bowl.
McDaniel and his wife, Sheryl, have a son and two daughters.
