Mitch Dahlen - Football Coach - University of Washington Athletics

Ohio State

Sep 27 (Sat)

12:30 p.m. PT

Mitch Dahlen

Title:
Quality Control - Offense
Email:
mdahlen@uw.edu

Mitch Dahlen joins the Washington staff for the 2022 season, as an offensive quality control coach. He made the move to Seattle along with new head coach Kalen DeBoer from Fresno State, where he spent the 2020 and 2021 seasons in the same capacity.

Last year, he helped guide a Fresno State offense that finished the season ranked No. 1 in the Mountain West Conference in total offense (464.8 yards per game) and second in scoring offense (33.4 points per game) and passing offense (330.1 yards per game). In 2020, Fresno State also led the conference with 479.3 yards of total offense per game.

The offense, and passing game in particular, also flourished in 2020, as it produced a conference-best 479.3 yards total offense per game, and the league's second-highest points per game total (32.8). Fresno State also led the Mountain West in passing yards per game, and ranked fifth in the FBS in that category, with 356.3 per game. The Bulldogs generated over 400 yards total offense in all six games in 2020.

Prior to Fresno State, his previous position was at Black Hills State University, in South Dakota, where he was offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.

Prior to joining the staff at BHSU, Dahlen worked at Boise State, where he was the assistant wide receivers and quarterbacks coach. He helped lead one of the top passing offenses in the country and helped implement the Bronco’s game plan as well as coach on the field during the 2018 season, finishing the year with a 10-3 record.

Dahlen was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the College of Idaho from 2016-18. He helped lead the team to multiple school records on offense, including total yards, pass yards, and rush yards. Dahlen coached two record-breaking quarterbacks along with multiple All-Conference selections and one All-American.

Dahlen has also spent time as a guest coach for the BC Lions in the Canadian Football League (2015), was assistant quarterbacks coach at Southern Utah University (2013-14), and was co-offensive coordinator and passing game coordinator at Sandy (Utah) High School (2011).

Dahlen began his collegiate playing career at Utah before moving to Southern Utah, where he played quarterback for the Thunderbirds.

Dahlen graduated magna cum laude from SUU with a degree in business management.