Chip Garber was named the Redskins’ defensive quality control coach on February 11, 2009. Garber brings 28 years of coaching experience with him to Washington, including 27 in the collegiate ranks.

Prior to joining the Redskins, he spent the 2008 season as the defensive backs coach for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League.

Garber spent the 2006 season as the wide receivers coach at the University of North Texas.

Prior to his stint with North Texas, Garber worked as the defensive backs coach at Hofstra for the 2004 and 2005 seasons, which was his second stint with the Pride. Garber held the title of defensive coordinator-safeties coach in 1999.

Under his watch, the Pride defense ranked seventh in Division I-AA in scoring defense (15.6 points per game) and 14th in passing efficiency.

In between his stops at Hofstra, Garber spent four seasons at West Point as Army’s assistant head coach/linebackers (2000-02) and assistant head coach/defensive backs (2003). He also served as defensive coordinator and secondary coach at Virginia Military Institute from 1996-98.

Before going to VMI, Garber spent the previous four seasons, 1992-95, coaching the defensive backs at the University of Minnesota.  During the 1995 season, Garber worked on the same staff as Redskins Head Coach Jim Zorn, who was serving as the Gophers’ quarterbacks coach.

Garber started his coaching career in a 1980, spending two seasons as a part-time assistant with SMU.

From 1982-89, Garber coached at Kentucky, first working with wide receivers, then switching sides of the ball to instruct the defensive backs and assist with special teams. Garber continued to coach defensive backs and special teams during tours with Mississippi State (1990) and TCU (1991).

As a player, Garber was a three-year letterman as a linebacker at Maryland from 1975-77. During that span, the Terrapins reached the Gator Bowl, Cotton Bowl and Hall of Fame Bowl as well as capturing the 1975 and 1976 ACC championships. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communications in 1978.

A native of Winchester, Virginia, Garber and his wife, Linda, have three children: Rusty, Laurie Beth and Derek.