Garrett Yrigoyen is a 29-year-old surgical technology consultant who is currently a contestant on The Bachelorette. He lives in Reno, Nevada.

Yrigoyen was born on February 24, 1989.

He grew up in Manteca, California.

Yrigoyen played baseball in high school and even played with the Wisconsin Woodchucks during a summer league. For college, Garrett attended the San Joaquin Delta College before transferring to University of Nevada, where he majored in General Studies and minored in health science and communications. ^[undefined]

Yrigoyen enjoys sports, swimming, wakeboarding, fishing, shooting, snowboarding and traveling.

Yrigoyen was married in 2015, but was divorced after 6 months.

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Yrigoyen was revealed by The Huffington Post to have consistently liked memes that mocked feminists and transgender people and made light of violence against undocumented immigrants. One image his account liked appears to ridicule ‘leftist women’ for being fat; another jokes about U.S. military addressing undocumented immigration by throwing small children over the border wall. ^[1]