Head Coach: Blake Nill
- Blake Nill boasts over 25 years of head coaching experience, taking the top job at UBC in 2015 after time at Saint Mary's and Calgary
- He won both the Hardy Cup and Vanier Cup in his first year with the Thunderbirds, becoming the first coach in U SPORTS history to guide two different schools to a Vanier Cup victory
- During his tenure the T-Birds have had 40 CFL draft selections and the first NFL draft pick in program history (Giovanni Manu, 2024)
See his full bio:
gothunderbirds.ca/staff.aspx?staff=467
Click here for the entire Football coaching staff:
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UBC Football Head Coaching History
Years Coach
1923-24 –
No Coach
1924-37 – Dr. Gordon Burke
1937-42 – Maury Van Vliet
1942-43 – John Farina
1943-45 –
No Team
1945-48 – Greg Kabat
1948-49 – Don Wilson
1949-51 – Orville Burke
1951-53 – Hjalmer Anderson
1953-55 – Don Coryell
1955-73 – Frank Gnup
1973-74 – Norm Thomas
1974-95 – Frank Smith
1995-98 – Casey Smith
1998-99 – Dave Johnson
1999-02 – Jay Prepchuk
2002-06 – Laurent DesLauriers
2006-10 – Ted Goveia
2010-15 – Shawn Olson
2015-Present – Blake Nill
