Steve Sarkisian
Sarkisian in 2012
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| Atlanta Falcons | |
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| Position: | Offensive coordinator |
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| Date of birth: | March 8, 1974 |
| Place of birth: | Torrance, California |
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| College: | BYU |
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| Sammy Baugh Trophy (1996) | |
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| Career: | NCAA: 46–35 (.568) |
Stephen Ambrose "Steve" Sarkisian (born March 8, 1974) is an American football coach and former player who is currently the offensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He has served as the head football coach of the University of Washington from 2009 to 2013 and at the University of Southern California (USC) from 2014 to 2015. He played college football as a quarterback at Brigham Young University (BYU) and professionally with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL).
After a standout baseball and football career at West High School in Torrance, California, Sarkisian's size (6', 165 lb) did not attract any college football offers. He began his collegiate athletic career in 1992 at USC as a non-scholarship middle infielder on the Trojans baseball team. He struggled playing NCAA Division I baseball and transferred after a semester to El Camino College, a two-year community college adjacent to his hometown of Torrance, where he played shortstop. At the urging of El Camino head football coach John Featherstone, one of his instructors, Sarkisian restarted his football career. As a redshirt freshman in 1993, Sarkisian earned All-Mission Conference honors. In his sophomore season, he was named a junior college All-American after setting a national junior college record by completing 72.4 percent of his passes.
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