TERRA bowling coach stepping down to tend to family matters
He founded the bowling program at TERRA Environmental Research Institute and quickly turned it into a powerhouse among Miami-Dade high schools. Ed Garland still takes pride in that.
That chapter of his life, though, is coming to an end.
Garland told the Herald on Wednesday that he is stepping down from his duties as the TERRA boys’ and girls’ bowling coach at the end of this academic year. Miami-Dade Public Schools granted him a leave of absence so he can tend to family matters out of state.
Garland started the TERRA bowling team in 2012, and the team quickly showed its dominance. The Wolves have had an individual or team qualify all eight years the program has been around. Garland, who also serves as a regional bowling representative for the FHSAA, has had four bowlers finish in the top 50 in the qualifying round at the state championship meet: Kevin Morrissey Jr. in 2015, Veronica Junco in 2016, William Reyes in 2017 and Gillian Pons in 2019.
He’s a five-time Miami Herald Bowling Coach of the Year and has had 14 players land on the Herald’s All-Miami-Dade bowling first team.
Before becoming a bowling coach, Garland was a basketball coach. He served as TERRA’s first varsity basketball head coach and also coached at LaSalle High School. He was also an assistant coach at St. Thomas University from 1992 to 1997 and an assistant coach/assistant general manager for the Hobart Devils of the National Basketball League of Australia.
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