Football
Cato, Derham
vs
Rutgers
Oct 10 (Fri)
6:00 p.m. PT
Derham Cato
- Title:
- Tight Ends Coach
- Email:
- football@uw.edu
- Phone:
- (206) 543-2223
Derham Cato, who spent the 2016-2019 seasons as an offensive analyst for the Washington football program, was named the Huskies' new tight ends coach on Jan. 11, 2020. The 2021 season will be his second on the staff in a coaching capacity.
In 2020, his first season as tight ends coach, he helped mentor one of the Huskies' strongest units, led by first-team All-Pac-12 tight end Cade Otton, the Huskies' leader in receptions, receiving yards and touchdowns.
Cato first joined the UW staff as an offensive analyst in February of 2016. In his first season, he helped the Husky offense to one of the most productive seasons in school history. The Huskies scored a school-record 77 touchdowns and 585 points (41.3 per game) while averaging 456.9 yards of total offense, third-best in school history.
Cato has been on the Husky staff for two Pac-12 Championships (2016 and 2018), three straight 10-win seasons and three straight berths in New Years Six bowl games.
Prior to joining the Washington staff, Cato was a offensive coordinator at Davidson for the 2015 season after having served as offensive line and tight ends coach there in 2014.
Cato joined Davidson's staff after having served as a graduate assistant at Vanderbilt from 2011 through 2013, where he worked alongside new UW offensive coordinator John Donovan, who was the Commodores' coordinator and also earned a master's degree in leadership and organizational performance.
That three-year stretch was easily the most successful in modern Vanderbilt history. The Commodores went 24-15 over those three years, won nine games each in 2012 and 2013, and finished in the AP top 25 each of those years.
During those three years, Vandy posted three of the top-four total yardage marks in school history, including a school-record 4,936 yards in 2012. That team averaged 30.1 points per game, also a school record.
A four-year letterman and three-year starter at Dartmouth, Cato graduated with a bachelor's degree in government in 2005. After college, he played professionally in the Arena Football League, NFL Europe, the Canadian Football League and afl2 (arena) while working at his high school alma mater – Charlotte (N.C.) Country Day School – as a strength and conditioning coach, special teams coordinator, defensive line coach and assistant offensive line coach over a four-year period.
He began his college coaching career at this alma mater, serving as tight ends coach at Dartmouth in 2010.
Cato and his wife Lauren, are the parents of a daughter, Finley.
• 2020-2021 – Washington – Tight Ends
• 2016-2019 – Washington – Offensive Analyst
• 2015 – Davidson – Offensive Coordinator
• 2014 – Davidson – Offensive Line/Tight Ends
• 2011-2013 – Vanderbilt – Graduate Assistant
• 2010 – Dartmouth – Tight Ends
In 2020, his first season as tight ends coach, he helped mentor one of the Huskies' strongest units, led by first-team All-Pac-12 tight end Cade Otton, the Huskies' leader in receptions, receiving yards and touchdowns.
Cato first joined the UW staff as an offensive analyst in February of 2016. In his first season, he helped the Husky offense to one of the most productive seasons in school history. The Huskies scored a school-record 77 touchdowns and 585 points (41.3 per game) while averaging 456.9 yards of total offense, third-best in school history.
Cato has been on the Husky staff for two Pac-12 Championships (2016 and 2018), three straight 10-win seasons and three straight berths in New Years Six bowl games.
Prior to joining the Washington staff, Cato was a offensive coordinator at Davidson for the 2015 season after having served as offensive line and tight ends coach there in 2014.
Cato joined Davidson's staff after having served as a graduate assistant at Vanderbilt from 2011 through 2013, where he worked alongside new UW offensive coordinator John Donovan, who was the Commodores' coordinator and also earned a master's degree in leadership and organizational performance.
That three-year stretch was easily the most successful in modern Vanderbilt history. The Commodores went 24-15 over those three years, won nine games each in 2012 and 2013, and finished in the AP top 25 each of those years.
During those three years, Vandy posted three of the top-four total yardage marks in school history, including a school-record 4,936 yards in 2012. That team averaged 30.1 points per game, also a school record.
A four-year letterman and three-year starter at Dartmouth, Cato graduated with a bachelor's degree in government in 2005. After college, he played professionally in the Arena Football League, NFL Europe, the Canadian Football League and afl2 (arena) while working at his high school alma mater – Charlotte (N.C.) Country Day School – as a strength and conditioning coach, special teams coordinator, defensive line coach and assistant offensive line coach over a four-year period.
He began his college coaching career at this alma mater, serving as tight ends coach at Dartmouth in 2010.
Cato and his wife Lauren, are the parents of a daughter, Finley.
• 2020-2021 – Washington – Tight Ends
• 2016-2019 – Washington – Offensive Analyst
• 2015 – Davidson – Offensive Coordinator
• 2014 – Davidson – Offensive Line/Tight Ends
• 2011-2013 – Vanderbilt – Graduate Assistant
• 2010 – Dartmouth – Tight Ends
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