Darren Harris

Darren Harris (born 18 July 1968)

Harris moved to Bendigo in 1988 to complete a degree in primary school teaching. During his three years in Bendigo, Harris played for Golden Square in the Bendigo Football League, winning premierships there in 1988 and 1989 including the clubs Best and Fairest in 89. He was also part of the Bendigo Inter league team that won the Victorian Country Championships in 1989. He returned to Wodonga in 1991 and played one more season with the Bulldogs winning their Senior Best and Fairest. captained the team to its first premiership since 1975, and won the Simpson Medal as best on the ground in the team's 56-point Grand Final win over Subiaco. He captained the WAFL representative team in 1996 and was ultimately named in the West Perth Team of the Decade for 1994-2003. Harris played five seasons for West Perth before leaving at the end of 1996. In 2000, Harris left the Raiders and took an assistant and development

In 2009, Harris became development manager at the Carlton Football Club, spending two years in this role, before becoming development coach and the senior coach of Carlton's club, the Northern Bullants, in 2011. He gave up the VFL coaching role at the end of the season in 2011 to focus on the development role, but returned to the senior coaching role for the newly renamed Northern Blues after Robert Hyde stepped down from the role at midseason in 2012.

Harris left Carlton at the end of 2012 and returned to Western Australia to take up a position at leadership consulting firm Leading Teams. He coached the WAFL representative team in 2015 and 2016, despite not serving in a league coaching role at the time; Then, in 2017 left Leading Teams to take the senior coaching role at Claremont. He coached there for four seasons, leading Claremont to the 2020 Grand Final, before being sacked ten days later. He returned to West Perth for a second stint as senior coach starting in 2022 and led the club to the premiership the same season – beating Claremont in the Grand Final.