Garrett Giemont
{{Short description|Strength and conditioning coach}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1959}}
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| position = Conditioning coordinator
| current_team = Pittsburgh Steelers
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| college = Fullerton College
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- Los Angeles Rams (1970–1977)
Training assistant - Los Angeles Rams (1978–1982)
Assistant trainer - Los Angeles Rams (1983–1989)
Strength and conditioning trainer - Los Angeles Rams (1990–1991)
Strength and conditioning coach - Chicago Cubs (1992–1994)
Director of physical development - Oakland Raiders (1995–2001)
Strength and conditioning coach - Oakland Raiders (2002)
Strength and conditioning coordinator - Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2004–2006)
Strength and conditioning coach - Pittsburgh Steelers (2007–present)
Conditioning coordinator
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- Super Bowl champion (XLIII)
- Super Bowl Achievement Award (2008)
- NFL Strength Coach of the Year Award (2002)
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Garrett Matthew Giemont (born 1959) is an American strength and conditioning coach who has worked for 30 years at the professional level with several teams in the National Football League (NFL) as well as in Major League Baseball (MLB).
Early life
Giemont grew up in southern California where he got into the NFL on the ground floor at age 12 as a ball boy for the Los Angeles Rams. He played football in high school, but any thought of a playing career was ended by knee injuries. He attended Fullerton College where he earned a degree in physical education.{{cite web|url=http://www.buccaneers.com/news/newsdetail.aspx?newsid=3652|title=Motivational Speaker|date=February 8, 2004|publisher=Buccaneers.com|access-date=25 March 2010}}
Coaching career
Giemont began his career as a training assistant with the Rams in 1970.{{cite web|url=http://www.steelers.com/team/coaches/garrett-giemont/bd51155e-fe70-40ce-b97b-396c23075346|title=Garrett Giemont|publisher=Steelers.com|access-date=25 March 2010}} He worked his way up the Rams organization, eventually becoming the team's strength and conditioning coach in 1990.
Giemont left the Rams in 1992 to become the director of physical development for Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs. With the Cubs he helped develop such players as Greg Maddux and Sammy Sosa.
Giemont returned to the NFL in 1995, taking a job as the strength coach of the Oakland Raiders.{{cite web|url=http://www.sbreport.net/the-raiders-research-project/raiders-coaches|title=Raider's coaching timeline|date=May 29, 2009|website=sbreport.net |access-date=25 March 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100418044303/http://www.sbreport.net/the-raiders-research-project/raiders-coaches|archive-date=18 April 2010}} He remained with the Raiders under four head coaches through the 2002 season. In 2002, Giemont was named Coach of the Year by the Professional Football Strength and Conditioning Coaches Society.
In 2003 Giemont was hired as strength coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, rejoining head coach Jon Gruden, under whom Giemont had coached in Oakland.{{cite news|url=http://www.sptimes.com/2003/02/14/Bucs/Keyshawn_Johnson_deni.shtml|title=Keyshawn Johnson denies Serena rumor|last=Stroud|first=Rick|date=February 13, 2003|publisher=St. Petersburg Times|access-date=25 March 2010|archive-date=15 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090615024545/http://www.sptimes.com/2003/02/14/Bucs/Keyshawn_Johnson_deni.shtml|url-status=dead}} The Buccaneers let Giemont go in 2006.{{cite news|url=http://www.buccaneers.com/news/newsdetail.aspx?newsid=5044|title=Staff Injection|date=March 16, 2006|publisher=Buccaneers.com|access-date=25 March 2010}}
Mike Tomlin brought Giemont in as the strength and conditioning coordinator for the Pittsburgh Steelers in {{Steelers season|2007}} shortly after taking over for Bill Cowher as head coach. Tomlin had previously worked with Giemont on the Buccaneers coaching staff. When the Steelers won the Super Bowl in {{Steelers season|2008}}, Giemont received the 2008 Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year Super Bowl Achievement Award from the Professional Football Strength and Conditioning Coaches Society.
Personal life
References
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Category:Oakland Raiders coaches
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Category:American strength and conditioning coaches
Category:Coaches of American football from California