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University of Massachusets Athletics
Football
- Title:
- Linebackers
Alma Mater: Cambridge College '00; Maine '00
Season at Massachusetts: First
Garrett Gillick joins the UMass football staff in January 2025 as the linebackers coach after spending the past 11 seasons at the University of New Hampshire, most recently serving as the associate head coach and defensive coordinator.
Gillick aided the Wildcats in his time to six NCAA FCS Playoff trips, including a first round appearance in the 2024 season for the 19th-nationally ranked UNH team. This past season, he saw defensive end Josiah Silver named the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Football Defensive Player of the Year, while landing multiple members on the All-CAA Team. Silver was also a CAA Defensive Rookie of the Year in the 2021 season
During his years at UNH, Gillick developed several All-American, All-Conference and Academic All-American performers. Gillick played a key role in emerging UNH into a perennial top 25 defense in the nation. In his first season in 2014, Gillick helped the Wildcats to the semifinals of the FCS Championships, while instrumenting New Hampshire’s scoring defense to a No. 2 ranking the CAA Conference.
Prior to Gillick’s time at New Hampshire, he had a three-year stint from 2011-13 at Bentley University as a defensive line coach. There, he coached an All-Conference performer in all three seasons, and was responsible for bringing the Falcons defense within the top 10 in the nation every year. Gillick helped the 2011 and 2012 defense to lead the Northeast-10 Conference in every major statistical category.
His coaching experience also expanded at the high school level, which included stops at Lowell High School and Methuen High School in Massachusetts.
Gillick, a Lowell, Massachusetts, native, earned his bachelor’s in business management from Maine in 2000 and his master’s degree in special education from Cambridge College in 2011. In 2008, Gillick was inducted into the Lowell High Scholl Athletic Hall of Fame.
