Nick So'oto

Biography

Nick So'oto enters his first season as director of player personnel for the UCLA football program in 2026. So'oto arrives in Westwood with five years of experience in recruiting and player personnel departments at California (2025), Arizona State (2023-24), Fresno State (2022), Army West Point (2021), and West Texas A&M (2021). In 2025, So'oto helped Cal to a berth in the Sheraton Hawai'i Bowl alongside brother Vic So'oto, who served as the Golden Bears' co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. New recruits – headlined by ACC Defensive Rookie of the Year Luke Ferrelli – played a key role in Cal's solid season. Before making the move to UCLA, So'oto helped Cal compile the No. 38 overall recruit class in the country (transfers + freshman, 247 Composite). So'oto's two seasons in Tempe were highlighted by a CFP appearance and 11-3 overall record in 2024. The Sun Devils won six straight games to close out that regular season before dropping a double-overtime heartbreaker to Texas in the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl. On the recruiting side, So'oto helped import the No. 7 class in the Big 12 and the No. 48 class nationally in 2024 (247 Composite). His first full-time personnel position came at Fresno State in 2022, when he helped the Bulldogs to a 10-4 record, a Mountain West Championship, and a win in the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl. That fall, FSU imported a top-four recruit class in the Mountain West Conference. In his first fall as a full-time collegiate staffer, Army West Point went

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