Brandon Younger
| Title: | Defensive Coordinator / Assistant Head Coach |
| Phone: | 650-949-7716 |
| Email: | youngerbrandon@fhda.edu |
Brandon Younger has been with with the program since 2021. He was also an assistant in 2018 and 2019.
Younger, a native of Oakland, CA, started his football playing days with the East Bay Warriors youth football program at the age of eleven. He then played high school football at Oakland Technical High School where he received all-league honors as a senior. Younger then went on to attend the College of the Sequoias where he played two years and earned an athletic scholarship to Langston University. At Langston University Younger helped lead his team to its first Red River conference championship in eleven years.
In 2008 Younger began his coaching career at Alameda High School, serving as varsity defensive backs coach for six years: coaching current NFL receiver Keelan Doss. In 2015, his first year at Oak Grove High School, Coach Younger, as the defensive backs coach led his unit to a Central Coast Section leading 18 interceptions, while being a part of a staff that won its first Central Coast Section title in eight years.
Joining the Owl program in 2018, in 2019, Younger help lead Foothill College to its first undefeated season in school history. In 2021 at City College of San Francisco as the defensive backs coach, Younger’s unit finished number one in the country in interceptions and helped lead the team to a 13-0 National Championship season.
Along with Coach Younger’s understand of the game, he also carries a philosophy that most describe as ‘player friendly’ with a strong focus on technique, academics, and attitude. “Get Grades, Make Plays” is a motto that he strongly enforces upon his student-athletes. The concept that if you get grades in the classroom and make plays on the field, you can accomplish whatever you want resonates throughout whatever scholastic football forum Coach Younger is a part of.
Younger is currently the defensive coordinator at Foothill Junior College. He and his wife, Ladina, have four children (sons Braylen and Beau and daughters Brooklyn and Bailey).