John Gardner - Football Coach - University of Colorado Athletics

Iowa State

Oct 11 (Sat)

1:30 PM

John Gardner

Title:
Defensive Graduate Assistant Coach
Email:
footballscouting@colorado.edu
Phone:
303-492-9787

        John Gardner is in his first year as graduate assistant for the defense, as he joined the Colorado staff in February 2022. He works specifically with the defensive line.

               Gardner, 26, came to Colorado from Austin Peay State University, where he was the assistant defensive backs coach for the 2021 season; he was also the scouting coordinator for six months there before he was promoted to recruiting coordinator his last two months on the staff, helping sign the Governor’s 2022 recruiting class.

               He previously spent a year-and-a-half on the University of Missouri staff (February 2020-June 2021), first as an offensive graduate assistant working with the receiver, and then as a recruiting analyst for his last six months in Columbia. His first taste of coaching came at his alma mater, the University of Washington, where he was an offensive assistant for the 2019 season. He worked mainly with the receivers and at times with the quarterbacks and had general duties in assistant with projects for the assistant coaches, including video breakdown.

               Gardner graduated from Washington in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Economics. He lettered three years as a receiver for the Huskies, and was on the 2016 team that defeated CU for the Pac-12 Conference title and earned a berth in the College Football Playoff (the second Pac-12 school to do so). Academically, he was on the Dean’s List throughout his college career and was Academic All-Pac-12 on two occasions (first-team as a junior; second-team as a senior).

               He was born September 26, 1995 in Seattle, Wash., and graduated from Inglemoor High School (Kenmore, Wash.), where lettered in football and basketball. His hobbies include playing basketball. In the past, he has been a guest speaker at youth football camps and has volunteered as a Little League coach.