Niles Garratt

In 2023-24, Niles Garratt is in his seventh season on the Stanford men's rowing coaching staff.

Last season, the Cardinal Varsity 8+ featured Peter Chatain in the No. 4 seat. Chatain was invited to join the U.S. senior national team after the collegiate season and is a contender for a berth on the U.S. Eight that will compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics. 

Stanford placed 13th in points at the IRA National Championships and its second Varsity Eight+ boat won the C final, with the Cardinal's No. 1 boat placing second in the B final. Stanford finished among the top 20 overall for the 15th consecutive season. 

Freshman Caspar Griffin was named Pac-12 Co-Newcomer of the Year and Chatain and junior Travis Senf earned All-Pac-12 honors. 

In 2021, Stanford reached the Grand Final at the IRA Championships, finishing fifth in the Varsity Eight for its best finish since 2009. Four rowers earned All-America honors from the Intercollegiate Rowing Coaches Association. Chatain and Trey Holterman were named to the first team while Flynn Traeger and James Wright earned second-team honors. Chatain was named the Pac-12 Men's Rowing Athlete of the Year. 

Though his first Stanford season was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chatain, Nikita Lilichenko, and James Wright were named to USRowing's under-23 national team selection camp.

Garratt served as the interim head coach for the final two months of the 2019 season. He 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. 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 in 2012.

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 and 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 Eight+ 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 Eight+ at the 2007 Club National Championships.