Dan Garrett an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

coach. He is the head football coach at

Kean University Kean University () is a public university in Union Township, Union County, New Jersey, Union and Hillside, New Jersey. It is part of New Jersey's public system of higher education. Kean University was founded in 1855 in Newark, New Jersey, as th ...

in Union, New Jersey, a position he has held since the 2006 season. Garrett grew up in

Clifton, New Jersey Clifton is a city in Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Criss-crossed by several major highways, the city is a regional commercial hub for North Jersey and is a bedroom suburb of New York City in the New York Metropolitan Area. As ...

, where he played football at Clifton High School.Woolis, Chris
"Clifton's Garrett leads Kean football to Division III postseason"
''Clifton Journal'', November 25, 2011. Accessed July 9, 2015. "Kean University head coach Dan Garrett is a 1992 graduate of Clifton High School.... 'I felt much more comfortable at linebacker than on the line,' said Garrett who grew up in Clifton's Athenia Section and attended School #13." After playing collegiate football for the

Montclair State Red Hawks football Montclair State University (MSU) is a public research university in Montclair, New Jersey, with parts of the campus extending into Little Falls. As of fall 2018, Montclair State was, by enrollment, the second largest public university in New ...

team, Garrett played for the Nuremberg Rams of the

German Football League The German Football League (GFL) is an American football league in Germany and was formed in 1979. Playing rules are based on those of the American National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA. In 1999, the league switched its name from ''Ameri ...

and the

Trenton Lightning The Trenton Lightning were an indoor professional football team founded in 2000 by owner/general manager, Phillip J. Subhan and local businessman, Kenneth Samu. The team started the 2001 season in the Indoor Professional Football League ( IPFL) ...

of the

Indoor Professional Football League The Indoor Professional Football League (IPFL) was the new incarnation of the Professional Indoor Football League (PIFL), which started in 1998. Two of its teams (the Madison Mad Dogs and the Green Bay Bombers) left the league and their owner, K ...

Head coaching record

References

External links

Kean profile
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American football defensive ends American football linebackers Kean Cougars football coaches Montclair State Red Hawks football coaches Montclair State Red Hawks football players Clifton High School (New Jersey) alumni Sportspeople from Clifton, New Jersey German Football League players American expatriate sportspeople in Germany American expatriate players of American football {{2000s-collegefootball-coach-stub