Former Bemidji State football player Trent Baalke named GM of 49ers Baalke elevated to General Manager after 14 years with the organization

BEMIDJI, Minn. -- The National Football League’s (NFL) San Francisco 49ers announced Tuesday evening that Bemidji State University graduate
Trent Baalke has been named the organization’s General Manager.

A 1986 graduate of Bemidji State University, Baalke attended BSU from 1982-86 and played a variety of positions for the Beaver football team
during that time. He piled up 67 solo tackles and assisted on 102 stops for a career total of 169 tackles. The two-time All-Northern Intercollegiate Conference (NIC) selection also accounted for 11 pass deflections, seven interceptions two forced fumbles and collected four fumble recoveries.

Under Head Coach John Peterson, the Rosendale, Wis. native and the Beavers were 21-20-1 and finished as high as third in the NIC (1984 and
1985).

Baalke, 46, enters his seventh season with the 49ers and 14th in the National Football League. Baalke most recently served as the 49ers’
Vice President of Player Personnel, overseeing all aspects of player
personnel.

Over the last nine months, Baalke was responsible for all player acquisitions. His first order of business was orchestrating a trade with
the Miami Dolphins for wide receiver Ted Ginn Jr. He then commanded the 49ers draft process for the first time. All eight of the 49ers 2010
selections made the active roster, including first rounders Anthony Davis Mike Iupati, who each started every game on the offensive line last season. Baalke also played a role in extending the contracts of Pro Bowlers linebacker Patrick Willis and tight end Vernon Davis and signing veteran running back Brian Westbrook.

Prior to his promotion to Vice President of Player Personnel, Baalke was the 49ers’ Director of Player Personnel (2008-09), where he oversaw both the college and pro personnel departments. He first joined the franchise in 2005 as the team’s Western Region Scout, a position he held until 2007.

Baalke also spent four years on the Washington Redskins’™ scouting staff, serving as the College Scouting Coordinator in his final season.
From 2001 to 2003, he served as Washington’s National Scout.

Before joining the Redskins, Baalke spent three seasons (1998-2000) as a scout with the New York Jets.

From 1990 to 1995, Baalke held the position of defensive line/strength and conditioning coach at South Dakota State University. In that role, he helped promote players such as former Pro Bowl guard Adam Timmerman and current NFL kicker Adam Vinatieri to NFL scouts. Baalke then spent time as the athletic director at Shanley High School in Fargo, N.D., before moving on to the Jets.

Baalke began his coaching career as a graduate assistant defensive line coach at North Dakota State University, in 1989. The team finished with
a 14-0 record and a Division II National Championship.

He fills a post vacated by then-GM Scot McCloughan. The post has been vacant since March 2010.

Trent and his wife, Beth, have two daughters, Katy and Cassie and reside in Loveland, Colo.