Tanner Farwell hired as Head Football Coach and Kinesiology Instructor at Glendale
GLENDALE - After three years as the Interim Adjunct Head Football Coach at Glendale Community College, Tanner Farwell has been hired to assume the role as full-time tenured track Kinesiology Instructor and Head Football Coach. Farwell, 32, is a graduate of Crescenta Valley High and GCC alum.
Upon graduating from GCC, Coach Farwell transferred and competed at Southern Oregon University. After one year of coaching as a graduate assistant and earning his bachelor’s degree, Tanner returned to coach football at GCC in the 2013 and 2014 seasons. Coach Farwell also coached at LA Valley College and Citrus College prior to returning back to GCC for the interim head coaching position. In his seven years as an assistant coach in the SCFA, his teams tallied records of 52-26.
Initially hired as Interim Head Coach in January of 2020, Coach Farwell endured the pandemic where he dedicated himself and his coaching staff to recruiting and online football instruction. Upon returning to competition on the gridiron, Farwell led the Vaqueros to records of 6-4 in 2021 and 5-5 in 2022.
Tanner Farwell’s hiring makes him only the fourth Head Football Coach since 1972 and the 19th head coach in GCC football history dating back to 1928, the first year that football was played at the school.
"It is an honor to continue the tradition that has been built for decades of developing our student-athletes, socially and athletically,'' said Farwell. "Our goal is to continue recruiting local student-athletes and getting them to develop and transfer onto the four-year level using our guided pathways we offer here at GCC.''
(Alex Leon, Glendale Community College)