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Britt Myers returned to UWF in February 2020 as the Special Teams' Coordinator and Linebackers coach. This marks his second time as part of head coach Pete Shinnick's staff, following two seasons as a Graduate Assistant coach from 2017-18.

In 2021, Myers led a Linebacker group that had three GSC All-Conference selections (1st Team: Trent Archie & Shea Campbell -- 2nd Team: Stephon Williams). The Argos' Special Forces unit also included GSC Special Teams Utility Player of the Year, Marcus Clayton. 

Myers spent the 2019 season as the co-defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach at Knox College. He mentored three Prairie Fire standouts to All-Midwest Conference honors on the defensive side of the ball.

During his first stint at UWF, he worked with the outside linebackers, while earning his Master's in Physical Education & Human Performance. He was on the staff during the 2017 NCAA National Finalist team that established an NCAA record for the fastest team to reach the playoffs and the championship game in history.

Prior to his first stop at UWF, Myers coached linebackers at Knox College for two seasons (2015 and 2016).

Myers first football coaching job was as the defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach at Lane Tech in Chicago, Ill. Under Myers, the team's rushing defense and total defense improved, and two defensive backs earned all-conference honors in his one season as the defensive coordinator. Myers served as the wide receivers coach and special teams coordinator in his first year at Lane Tech.

Myers played club baseball at Indiana University for four years and was president of the club his final two years. He graduated with a double major in exercise science and sport marketing & management and a double minor in coaching and business.

Teaching and coaching run in the Myers family genes. Myers' father, Tom, has supplemented a 30+ year career at Lake Forest High School teaching P.E. and serving as the head baseball and football coach by also coaching football at Lake Forest College for two decades. His mother, Carol, taught P.E. and coached gymnastics at Deerfield High School for more than 30 years. Myers' brother, Travis, is a guidance counselor and assistant football and baseball coach at Glenbrook South HS.

Myers and his wife Britton Lynn Myers got married in 2021 and live in Pensacola.