Clay Helton
Helton in 2013
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | USC |
| Conference | Pac-12 |
| Record | 16–7 |
| Annual salary | $3.8 Million |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
June 24, 1972 Gainesville, Florida |
| Alma mater | University of Houston, 1994 |
| Playing career | |
| 1990–1992 | Auburn |
| 1993–1994 | Houston |
| Position(s) | Quarterback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1995 | Duke (GA) |
| 1996 | Duke (RB) |
| 1997–1999 | Houston (RB) |
| 2000–2002 | Memphis (RB) |
| 2003–2006 | Memphis (WR) |
| 2007–2009 | Memphis (OC/QB) |
| 2010–2011 | USC (QB) |
| 2012 | USC (PGC/QB) |
| 2013 | USC (OC/QB/interim HC) |
| 2014 | USC (OC/QB) |
| 2015 | USC (OC/QB/interim HC/HC) |
| 2016–present | USC |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 16–7 |
| Bowls | 2–1 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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1 Pac-12 South Division (2015) Rose Bowl Championship (2017) |
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1 Pac-12 South Division (2015)
Charles Clay Helton (born June 24, 1972) is an American football coach and former player. He is the head coach of the USC Trojans football team. Helton also serves as quarterbacks coach.
Helton has also been a coach for Duke Blue Devils, Houston Cougars and Memphis Tigers. His father, Kim Helton, was a coach in college, the National Football League, and the Canadian Football League.
Charles Clay Helton was born in 1972 in Gainesville, Florida, where his father Charles Kimberlin "Kim" Helton was then a graduate assistant for the University of Florida football team. The Helton family later lived in the Miami, Tampa Bay, and Houston areas, as Kim Helton later coached for the University of Miami, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Houston Oilers. Clay Helton attended Clements High School in Sugar Land, Texas and graduated in 1990.
After redshirting his freshman year, Helton played college football at Auburn as quarterback. In 1993, Helton transferred to Houston, after his father was hired as head coach there. Helton was a backup quarterback at both Auburn and Houston and graduated from Houston in 1994 with a degree in mathematics and interdisciplinary science. At Houston, Helton completed 47 of 87 passes for 420 yards, one touchdown, and four interceptions and played 16 games.
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