Chad Germer
	Position: Offensive Line Coach Experience: 6th year at UW College Degree: Montana `93

Email: germer@uwyo.edu

Chad Germer begins his sixth season as a member of the Cowboy coaching staff in 2008 and his 11th season coaching at the college level. He moved from his alma mater, the University of Montana, to the University of Wyoming in 2003. Germer coaches the Cowboy offensive line. He was also the offensive line coach at Montana.

When the 2008 season kicks off, Germer will welcome back all five starters from last year's group, including Honorable Mention All-MWC selection Kyle Howard, who will be a senior. Fellow `08 senior, center Tim Bond, was named to the 2007 Dave Rimington Preseason Watch List for the nation's top center, but was forced to miss two games his junior season due to a right knee sprain. That offensive line group helped blaze the way for junior running back Devin Moore to rush for 965 yards in `07.

Germer coached another outstanding tandem in the offensive line for the Cowboys in 2006. Senior Chase Johnson earned First Team All-Mountain West Conference honors in `06, and signed a free-agent contract with the Minnesota Vikings in the spring of 2007. Johnson concluded his college career playing in the inaugural North-South All-Star Classic in Houston, Texas. Fellow senior Jason Karcher was voted Second Team All-MWC in `06, despite missing three games in the middle of the 2006 campaign due to a knee injury.

Johnson and Karcher also earned Honorable Mention All-MWC honors in 2005. The 2005 season saw Germer's offensive line help Wyoming freshman running back Wynel Seldon set a new UW freshman rushing record. Seldon gained 871 yards behind the Cowboy O-Line.

In 2004, Germer coached First Team All-MWC center Trenton Franz and Honorable Mention All-Conference tackle Johnson. Franz was one of the national finalists for the 2004 National Football Foundation (NFF) Draddy Trophy, symbolic of the nation's top scholar athlete. He received a postgraduate scholarship from the NFF and went on to pursue graduate studies in engineering at Princeton.

Germer began his college coaching career at Montana in 1998 as a restricted-earnings coach. He became a full-time assistant in 1999. During his five seasons as a coach at Montana, the Griz won or shared five Big Sky Conference Championships, advanced to the NCAA Division I-AA Playoffs each of those five seasons, reached the Division I-AA national title game twice (2000 and `01) and won the 2001 National Championship. He coached four All-Americans during his time at UM.

Germer's 2002 offensive line unit helped the Grizzly offense rank 18th in the nation in scoring offense (31.5 points per game) and 22nd in passing offense (245.6 yards per game). In 2001, the Grizzlies won the NCAA Division I-AA National Championship as the offense averaged 33.8 points and 419.2 yards per game to rank 20th and 21st, respectively, in the final NCAA I-AA statistical rankings. The Griz also ended the 2000 season in the National Championship game, finishing as the national runner-up to Georgia Southern. UM's offense ranked sixth in the nation in passing offense (313.0 yards per game) in 2000 and 15th in total offense (455.9 yards per game).

As an All-America player, Germer started 36 consecutive games at center from the 1989-91 seasons. A First Team All-Big Sky selection and All-America honoree in 1991, Germer was also selected to play in the Blue-Gray All-Star Football Classic following his senior season. He signed as a free-agent with the Cincinnati Bengals of the NFL and went to camp with them in 1992.

Germer earned his bachelor of science degree in business administration, with an emphasis in marketing and management, from the University of Montana in 1993.

A native of Three Forks, Mont., he and his wife, Amy, have two sons, Nicholas and Alex.

"Chad is another young coach we picked up when we went to Montana, and what a stroke of luck that was for us," said Glenn. "Chad stayed on with us when we got to Montana, after playing and coaching there prior to our arrival. He is a tremendous worker, and a relentless recruiter. Chad knows exactly the type of kids he likes in his offensive line, and he goes after those kids hard in recruiting. I believe his intensity carries over to the young men he coaches. He is constantly attending clinics to stay up on the most recent technics, and he is a very innovative coach."

Germer will recruit Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and Wisconsin.