Inaugural Bay Area Panthers Head Coach, Kurt Bryan enters his 29th year of coaching football, and begins his second season leading the Panthers franchise after the Covid-19 pandemic ended the Panthers 2020 campaign one-day before it was due to kickoff.
Overall, the Panthers 2022 season will be Bryan’s 13th season as a head football coach, including nine-years during a pair of stints at Piedmont High School (CA), and two-seasons at Arroyo High School (CA). Bryan’s primary goal as the head coach of the Panthers is to develop the franchise into a championship program by creating an exciting, premier brand of football that fans will eagerly support, and one that talented players will aspire to join.
Prior to being named the head coach of the Panthers, Bryan served as a high school and collegiate football coach in the San Francisco Bay Area, and northern California for nearly three decades. Recognized as an innovator by his peers at every level of the game as the Co-creator of the revolutionary A-11 Offense in 2007, in addition to media outlets and pundits reporting on the benefits of the A-11; Bryan has helped to advance the game into its future with improving player-safety by design and significantly expanding the game’s options using fully interchangeable offensive players regardless of a player’s jersey-number.
Bryan is a 1988 graduate of the California State University at Chico with a degree in Communications. Bryan’s NCAA coaching experience began as an offensive assistant at Chico State University in 1984-85. He worked as the TE/WR/DB coach at Menlo College, Atherton, CA from 1997-99, and in 2000-02, as the WR Coach at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, CA.
Twice, Bryan was the head coach at Piedmont High School (Piedmont, CA) from 1993-96 and 2006-10. During his eleven-years as a head coach, Bryan’s Piedmont teams earned playoff berths in 1993, 1995 and 2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009, including the 1995 ACCAL championship season. Bryan was awarded ACCAL Coach of the Year honors in 1993 & 1995, and in 2007 as BSAL Co-coach of the Year. As the head coach at Arroyo High School (San Lorenzo, CA) in 2017-18, Bryan was selected as the Oakland Raiders high school Coach of the Week - October 3rd, 2018.
He worked as the Passing Game Coordinator at Chico High School in 1986, the Offensive Coordinator for Piedmont 1987-92, and as Offensive Coordinator at Livermore High 2004-5. Bryan has been a featured speaker at coaching clinics around the country. Most of all, Bryan enjoys teaching his football players about life’s valuable lessons through the game of football.
Kurt is married to Dolly, and they have two adult children, Roxanne, and Parker, and four grandchildren, Sophia, Chloe, Michael III and Andrew. Bryan is an author of three books - two football suspense novels, The Game Breaker & The Double Move, and his first non-fiction book, Fate Came Calling was released April 2019. Bryan has co-authored several manuals on the A-11 Offense with Co-creator, Steve Humphries.