Carolyn Peck
 |
|||||||||||||
| Sport(s) | Women's basketball | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biographical details | |||||||||||||
| Born |
January 22, 1966 Jefferson City, Tennessee |
||||||||||||
| Playing career | |||||||||||||
| 1985–1988 | Vanderbilt | ||||||||||||
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |||||||||||||
| 1993–1995 | Tennessee (Asst.) | ||||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Kentucky (Asst.) | ||||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Purdue (Asst.) | ||||||||||||
| 1997–1999 | Purdue | ||||||||||||
| 1999–2001 | Orlando Miracle | ||||||||||||
| 2002–2007 | Florida | ||||||||||||
| 2016-present | Vanderbilt (Asst.) | ||||||||||||
|
Medal record
|
|||||||||||||
Carolyn Arlene Peck (born January 22, 1966) is an American television sportscaster and former college basketball coach. She was the head coach for the women's basketball teams of Purdue University and the University of Florida, and also the first head coach-general manager in the history of the WNBA's Orlando Miracle. Currently, Peck is an assistant head coach for her alma mater, Vanderbilt University.
As a senior in high school, Peck, a 6-4 center, was named Tennessee’s Miss Basketball after averaging 35 points and 13.2 rebounds per game. She played college basketball at Vanderbilt University from 1985 to 1988, averaging 10.6 points and 5.8 rebounds per game. She also blocked 180 shots, to break a Vanderbilt women’s basketball career record.
Peck graduated from Vanderbilt with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications in 1988. She passed up on an opportunity to play professionally in Spain to work as a marketing consultant at a Nashville television station, as well as sell pharmaceutical products for a Fortune 500 company for two years.
Peck returned to basketball in 1991, quitting her job to play professionally in Italy for three weeks, then for Japan’s Nippondenso Corporation for two years. During her second year in Japan, her team won the league championship.
Peck’s coaching career began in 1993. She returned to her home state to serve as an assistant coach for the Tennessee Lady Vols under coach Pat Summitt for two seasons. The Lady Vols posted 30-win seasons and won the Southeastern Conference championship during both seasons: 31–2 in 1993–94, and 34–3 in 1994–95. The latter team lost to the undefeated, Rebecca Lobo-led Connecticut Huskies in the NCAA Championship game, the school's and head coach Geno Auriemma's first National Championship.
...
Wikipedia