| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Tabor |
| Conference | KCAC |
| Record | 110–73 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | March 9, 1967 Roeland Park, Kansas, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| 1986–1990 | Baker |
| Position(s) | Kicker |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1990–1993 | Hastings (ST/RC) |
| 1993–1996 | Bethel (KS) (QB/TE/WR) |
| 1996–1999 | Lindenwood (ST) |
| 2000 | Lindenwood (DC) |
| 2001–2003 | Tabor (DC) |
| 2004–2005 | Tabor |
| 2006–2009 | Malone |
| 2010–present | Tabor |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 135–91 |
| Bowls | 1–2 |
| Tournaments | 3–5 (NAIA playoffs) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 5 KCAC (2004–2005, 2015–2017) | |
| Awards | |
| KCAC Coach of the Year [1] (2004, 2005, 2012, 2015) AFCA NAIA Assistant Coach of the Year (2003) AFLAC Assistant Coach of the Year (2003) | |
Michael Norman Gardner (born March 9, 1967)[2] is an American college football coach. He is the head football coach for Tabor College, a position he held from 2004 to 2005 and resumed in 2010. Gardner served as the head football coach at Malone University in Canton, Ohio from 2006 to 2009. He was chosen to replace Mike Gottsch after Tabor's winless 2009 season.[3] Gardner's teams achieved postseason play in each of his first five years as a head coach at the college level—the first two years qualifying for the NAIA Football National Championship playoffs and the next three years appearing in the Victory Bowl.