Aaron Best
| Sport(s) | Football |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Eastern Washington |
| Conference | Big Sky |
| Record | 12–5 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
January 27, 1978 Tacoma, Washington |
| Playing career | |
| 1996–1999 | Eastern Washington |
| Position(s) |
Center Long snapper |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2000 | Eastern Washington (SA) |
| 2001 | Eastern Washington (GA) |
| 2002–2006 | Eastern Washington (OL) |
| 2007 | Toronto Argonauts (OL) |
| 2008–2016 | Eastern Washington (OC/OL) |
| 2017–present | Eastern Washington |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 12–5 |
Aaron Best (born January 27, 1978) is an American football coach and former player. He is the head football coach at Eastern Washington University, a position he assumed in January, 2017.
Playing career
Best graduated in 1996 from Curtis Senior High School in Tacoma, Washington, where he had a 3.75 grade point average. He was a co-captain his senior season as Curtis won the State 3A football championship.
Best spent four years at Eastern Washington as a Long snapper and Center. He started 22 straight games as a Junior and Senior, earning First Team All-Big Sky Conference and Honorable Mention All-American honors.
Coaching career
From 2000–2001, Best served as a Student/Graduate Assistant at Eastern Washington. From 2002–06, Best served as the Offensive line coach at Eastern Washington, during which time he helped develop 2005 NFL Draft selection Michael Roos, who was taken in the second round by the Tennessee Titans.
In 2007, Best became the offensive line coach for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. The next year in 2008, Best returned as the Offensive Coordinator and Offensive line coach for Eastern Washington under new coach Beau Baldwin. Best was part of the 2010 coaching staff for the FCS national championship team at Eastern Washington.
On January 16, 2017, Best was named co-interim head coach at Eastern Washington, after the departure of Beau Baldwin, who left to become the Offensive Coordinator for California. On January 20, 2017, Best was named the permanent head coach at Eastern Washington.
Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Washington Eagles (Big Sky Conference) (2017–present) | |||||||||
| 2017 | Eastern Washington | 7–4 | 6–2 | T–3rd | |||||
| 2018 | Eastern Washington | 5–1 | 3–0 | ||||||
| Eastern Washington: | 12–5 | 9–2 | |||||||
| Total: | 12–5 | ||||||||