Peter Clay Carroll is best known as an American football coach who is the head coach and executive vice president for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League.
Carroll was previously the head football coach at USC from 2001 to 2009, where he won six bowl games and back-to-back National Championships in 2003 and 2004.
Where did Pete Carroll go to college and high school?
Carroll was raised in Greenbrae, California, and attended Greenbrae School. He attended Redwood High School in Larkspur, California.
Carroll was a multi-sport star in football (playing quarterback, wide receiver, and defensive back), basketball, and baseball, earning the school’s Athlete of the Year honors as a senior in 1969. He was inducted into the charter class of the Redwood High School Athletic Hall of Fame in April 2009.
After high school, Carroll attended junior college at the nearby College of Marin, where he played football for two years (lettering in his second year) before transferring to the University of the Pacific, where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Did Pete Carroll ever play college football?
Yes, at Pacific, Carroll played free safety for two years for the Tigers, earning All-Pacific Coast Athletic Conference honors both years (1971–72) and earning his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 1973.
After graduation, Carroll tried out for the Honolulu Hawaiians of the World Football League at their training camp in Riverside but did not make the team due to shoulder problems combined with his small size.
After graduating from Pacific, Carroll’s colleague Bob Cope was hired by the University of Arkansas and he convinced Lou Holtz, then the head coach of the Razorbacks, to also hire Carroll. Carroll spent the 1977 season as a graduate assistant working with the secondary under Cope.
During his season with Arkansas, he met his future offensive line coach Pat Ruel, also a graduate assistant, as well as the future head coach of the Razorbacks Houston Nutt, who was a backup quarterback. Arkansas’ Defensive Coordinator at the time, Monte Kiffin, would be a mentor to Carroll. The Razorbacks won the 1978 Orange Bowl that season.
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