Washington coach Kalen DeBoer is making his first appearance in the College Football Playoff national championship game on Monday night.
As he tries to win his Huskies a national title over Michigan, let’s look back on where he was before he took the sideline for Washington.
Before coaching the Huskies, DeBoer worked as the head coach at Fresno State from 2020-21 after working at the school as its offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2017-18.
He spent a season at Indiana as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2019 before returning to Fresno State to take over the program.
He played college football at Sioux Falls as a wide receiver and coached that position group for the school in 1997. After a couple of years in high school football in South Dakota, he returned to Sioux Falls as its offensive coordinator from 2000-04 before becoming its head coach from 2005-09.
He spent 2010-13 as Southern Illinois’ offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach then coached at Eastern Michigan as its offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2014-16.
After taking over at Washington as its head coach in 2022, he has the Huskies ready to compete for a national title game. He is 104-11 as a head coach.
