Garret Chachere

Garret Chachere (born March 17, 1969) is an American football coach and former player who is currently the running backs coach at Western Kentucky.

Garret Chachere

Current position
Title	Running backs coach
Team	Western Kentucky
Conference	C-USA
Biographical details
Born	(1969-03-17) March 17, 1969 (age 56) New Orleans, Louisiana
Alma mater	Brother Martin High School Tulane University, 1988
Playing career
1987–1988	Tulane
Position(s)	Running back
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1991	Tulane (GA)
1992	Cheyney (RB/DB)
1993	Bloomsburg (WR/DB)
1994	Bucknell (DB)
1995–1997	Nicholls State (LB)
1998	Northeast Louisiana (WR/TE)
1999–2006	Tulane (LB/ST)
2007–2008	Memphis (ST)
2009–2011	Arizona (RB/WR)
2012	Southern Miss (TE/ST)
2013–2017	California (DE/LB/AHC/RB)
2017	New Mexico Highlands (OC/WR)
2018	Southeastern Louisiana (PGC/RB)
2019–present	Western Kentucky (RB)

Playing career

Chachere is an alumnus of the Tulane University and played football at the school from 1987 to 1988.^[1]

Coaching career

Chachere began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at his alma mater, Tulane University, in 1991.^[2] In 1992, Chachere accepted a position at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania where he served as both running backs and defensive backs coach before moving on to Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania where he coached wide receivers and defensive backs for one year in 1993.^[2] In 1994, he became defensive backs coach at Bucknell University.^[2] After the 1994 season, he became linebackers coach at Nicholls State University from 1995 to 1997.^[3] In 1998, he coached wide receivers and tight ends at Northeast Louisiana.^[4]

Chachere returned to his alma mater, Tulane University, to coach linebackers and special teams from 1999 to 2006.^[2] For both the 2007 and 2008 seasons, he coached special teams at the University of Memphis.^[5] He then moved on to the University of Arizona where he coached running backs and wide receivers from 2009 to 2011.^[6] During his tenure at Arizona, he served as the chairman of the program committee for the American Football Coaches Association.^[6]

He then left to coach tight ends and special teams at the University of Southern Mississippi in 2012.^[5][7] On January 6, 2013 Chachere was announced as the defensive ends coach for the Golden Bears football team at the University of California, Berkeley.^[8] From 2014 to 2015, he was linebackers coach and was also named assistant head coach at California.^[8] With experience coaching both offense and defense, Chachere switched sides to coach running backs in 2016.^[9]

In February 2017, Chachere accepted his first coordinator position as the offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach at New Mexico Highlands University for the 2017 season.^[10] In January 2018, he was named the passing game coordinator and running backs coach at Southeastern Louisiana University for 2018.^[11] In January 2019, Chachere was named running backs coach at Western Kentucky University.^[12]