Niles Garratt is in his third season as an assistant coach at Stanford.
Garratt, who served as the interim head coach for the final two months of the 2019 season, arrived at Stanford in August, 2017, after serving as an assistant coach at Washington.
A native of Seattle, Garratt joined the Huskies’ staff as an intern assistant coach in December, 2014. In his first year, Garratt coached an undefeated freshman eight that won the 2014 IRA Championship by nearly six seconds. In addition, Garratt coached Washington’s varsity four to another IRA national championship.
In 2015, Garratt worked as a graduate assistant coach, to which he was hired on as full-time assistant coach in 2016 after coaching the second varsity eight to a national championship.
Before coaching at Washington, Garratt studied history at Cambridge University and rowed in the Blue Boat in both the 2012 and 2013 Cambridge-Oxford Boat Races, winning the 2012 Boat Race.
During his collegiate career at Washington, Garratt won four IRA national championships, was a member of four Ten Eyck Trophy-winning teams and never lost his Washington tank. While at Washington, Garratt double majored in history and political science was named to multiple Pac-10/12 All-Academic teams.
Garratt attended Shorecrest High School in Shoreline, Washington, where he was part of the swimming and diving team for three years, including team captain as a senior. Garratt rowed for Green Lake Crew in the four years he attended Shorecrest, finishing his senior year with a second-place finish at the USRowing Youth National Championships in the Men's Youth 8+ and served as team captain. In the summers after his last three years of high school, Garratt rowed for the Northwest Development Camp, winning the Junior 8+ at the 2007 Club National Championships.