Valkmar Erich "Val" Schneider is a retired Canadian football executive and player.
Schneider grew up in Boyle Street in Edmonton, Alberta[2] and attended Victoria Composite High School.
He was later a professor, athletic administrator and coach, teaching at Red Deer College in the 1970s,[5] coaching the Red Deer Packers football team, serving as the University of Saskatchewan's athletic director from 1980 to 1991, as head coach of the University of Saskatchewan Huskies football team from 1973 to 1983, with the exception of 1979, and as an assistant dean of the College of Physical Education at the University of Saskatchewan.
He was also an assistant coach for nine years with the Huskies, including when they won the Vanier Cup in 1990.
His son Brent played university football, and was a Vanier Cup MVP twice in, in 1994 and 1996, with the Saskatchewan Huskies.