Garett Kiley - Associate Head Coach - Wrestling Coaches - University of Northern Colorado Athletics

Garett Kiley

Title:
Associate Head Coach
Email:
garett.kiley@unco.edu
Phone:
970.351.1832

Kiley joined the staff at Northern Colorado in 2018 and was promoted to Associate Head following the 2021-22 season.

Over his time with the Bears he has helped 15 wrestlers to the NCAA Championships, sign two top 15 ranked recruiting classes and have 16 NWCA Scholar All-Americans.

During the 2021-22 season, In 2021-22 Kiley was a pivotal member of the coaching staff and played a key role in the historic success of the team. He helped assist Andrew Alirez in becoming the first Big 12 Champion in school history, and the highest advancing UNC wrestler in the NCAA Championships since 2010. The season also boasted three NCAA Championship qualifiers thanks to Kiley and the coaching staff.

One of those wrestlers who qualified for the NCAA Championships was Alan Clothier who became the program's first four-time place winner at the Southern Scuffle.

The 2020-21 season was a historic season for Northern Colorado. He helped the team earn their first NWCA ranking in 51 years. The Bears qualified four wrestlers for the NCAA Championships and earned a program-best finish at the Big 12 Championships. UNC also had success in the classroom during the 2020-21 season with a record 14 Academic All-Big 12 members and five NWCA Scholar All-America honorees. Kiley was busy on the recruiting trail as well, helping sign the program’s second top 15 class in three years.

Kiley helped raise the bar for the program in 2019-20 as UNC qualified five wrestlers to compete in the NCAA Championships before the COVID-19 pandemic canceled it. Three of the five wrestlers who qualified earned NWCA All-America honorable mention honors in Mosha Schwartz, Andrew Alirez and Dalton Robertson. He played a key role in the transformation of Robertson from wrestling at 174 lbs when Kiley arrived at UNC to qualifying at heavyweight two seasons later.

That trio automatically qualified for the NCAA Championships and was a big part of the Bear best-ever finish at the Southern Scuffle. Three Bears earned NWCA Scholar All-America status in 2019-20 in Jacob Seely, Alan Clothier and Jace Koelzer. Northern Colorado also earned the honor of NWCA Academic All-Scholar team coming in with the 25th best cumulative GPA in all of Division I wrestling.

His first season at UNC, Kiley coached up three Bears to the NCAA Championships in Rico Montoya, Chris Sandoval and Jacob Seely. He assisted in the recruiting efforts of a top five ranked recruiting class that included Andrew "Boo" Alirez and Mosha Schwartz who would go on a qualify for the NCAA's their freshman season. Two Bears earned NWCA Scholar All-America status in Montoya and Seeley. Montana was also the Big 12 Wrestling Scholar-Athlete of the Year and a CoSIDA Academic All-American.

Before coming to UNC he was a Campbell University for two years. In the 2017 season, Kiley helped to guide Campbell to its first-ever Southern Conference Championship and All-American in 2017. During Kiley’s seasons, Campbell had seven wrestlers qualify for the NCAA Championships.

Prior to his stint at Campbell, Kiley was the director of operations for Iowa State University where he worked with Nickerson and coached Moreno. Kiley was the director of operations for both the wrestling program and the Cyclone Wrestling Club.

Kiley has been moving up the ranks in college wrestling with assistant head coaching jobs at Concordia University in Nebraska and Wayland Baptist University in Texas. At Wayland Baptist, Kiley served as an assistant coach for both the men’s and women’s wrestling program.

He graduated from Simpson College in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physical Education and in 2013 he earned his Master of Arts in Coaching and Athletic Administration from Concordia University-Irvine.