Pete Carroll

Pete Carroll

Carroll in 2014 as head coach of the Seattle Seahawks
Seattle Seahawks
Position:	Head coach
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1951-09-15) September 15, 1951 (age 65)
Place of birth:	San Francisco, California
Career information
High school:	Larkspur (CA) Redwood
College:	Pacific
Career history
As coach:
Pacific (1973–1976) Graduate assistant Arkansas (1977) Graduate assistant Iowa State (1978) Secondary coordinator Ohio State (1979) Secondary coordinator North Carolina State (1980–1982) Defensive coordinator Pacific (1983) Defensive coordinator Buffalo Bills (1984) Defensive backs coach Minnesota Vikings (1985–1989) Defensive backs New York Jets (1990–1993) Defensive coordinator New York Jets (1994) Head coach San Francisco 49ers (1995–1996) Defensive coordinator New England Patriots (1997–1999) Head coach USC (2001–2009) Head coach Seattle Seahawks (2010–present) Head coach
Career highlights and awards
Super Bowl championship (XLVIII) 2× NFC champion (2013, 2014) AP national champion (2003, 2004) 4× Rose Bowl champion (2003, 2006–2008) 2× Orange Bowl champion (2002, 2004)
Head coaching record
Regular season:	101–69–1 (.594)
Postseason:	10–7 (.588)
Career:	NCAA: 83–19 (.814) NFL: 110–76–1 (.591)
Coaching stats at PFR

Peter Clay Carroll (born September 15, 1951) is an American football coach who is the head coach and executive vice president of the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He is a former head coach of the New York Jets, New England Patriots, and the USC Trojans of the University of Southern California (USC). Carroll is one of only three football coaches who have won both a Super Bowl and a college football national championship. Carroll is the oldest head coach currently working in the NFL.

Carroll was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Rita (née Bann) and James Edward "Jim" Carroll. Two of his paternal great-grandparents were Irish immigrants, and his Croatian maternal grandparents emigrated from around the region of Dubrovnik. Carroll attended Redwood High School in Larkspur, California. After being an athlete in childhood, his lack of physical growth as a teenager caused him frustration in high school sports; weighing just 110 pounds (50 kg) as an incoming freshman, he was required to bring a special doctor's clearance in order to try out for football. He 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. Carroll has stated that one of his favorite players growing up was LSU defensive back Tommy Casanova, and that LSU was a place that he always wanted to coach.