Mike Tomlin
Tomlin in 2007
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| Pittsburgh Steelers | |
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| Position: | Head coach |
| Personal information | |
| Date of birth: | March 15, 1972 |
| Place of birth: | Hampton, Virginia |
| Career information | |
| High school: | Newport News (VA) Denbigh |
| College: | William & Mary |
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| Head coaching record | |
| Regular season: | 103–57 (.644) |
| Postseason: | 8–5 (.615) |
| Career: | 111–62 (.642) |
| Coaching stats at PFR | |
Michael Pettaway Tomlin (born March 15, 1972) is an American football coach who is the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). Tomlin is the fifth youngest head coach in any of the four major North American professional sports. He is the tenth African-American head coach in NFL history, and first in Steelers history. With the victory in Super Bowl XLIII on February 1, 2009 against the Arizona Cardinals, Tomlin became the youngest head coach to lead his team to a Super Bowl championship.
Tomlin was born in Hampton, Virginia, the younger of two sons; his brother, Eddie, is three and a half years older. Their father, Ed Tomlin, played football at Hampton Institute in the 1960s, was drafted by the Baltimore Colts, and later played for the Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League. The elder Tomlin died in January 2012 from an apparent heart attack in Ocala, Florida, at the age of 63. However, Tomlin hardly knew his birth father and was raised by his mother and stepfather, Julia and Leslie Copeland, who married when Tomlin was 6 years old. Leslie Copeland worked 37 years for the U.S. Postal Service, where he was a sorter.
Tomlin graduated in 1990 from Denbigh High School in Newport News, Virginia. He attended the College of William and Mary, becoming a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. As a wide receiver and tight end, he was a second-team All-Yankee Conference selection in 1994.
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