Juan Navarro joined the NCCU football staff as recruiting coordinator and defensive line coach in January 2019. He added defensive run game coordinator duties for the 2020 season, and in 2021 served as the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach.
Navarro spent the past three seasons coaching in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) as defensive coordinator/linebackers coach at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (2018) and defensive line coach/director of football operations at Southern University (2016-17). In 2015, he was defensive line coach at the University of Redlands (Calif.), where he earned both his bachelor’s (2002) and master’s (2004) degrees, and started his coaching career working with linebackers and defensive line from 2001-05.
Navarro served as head football coach, defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach at Los Angeles Valley College for the 2014 season, and was defensive coordinator/defensive backs coach/associate head coach at Los Angeles Pierce College in 2013. He spent six seasons (2007-12) with Florida International University, holding a variety of positions from director of football operations to assistant coach in charge of defensive line and linebackers, and was an offensive assistant working with the offensive line at the University of Miami in 2006.
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