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- What does Pete Carroll do for a living?
- Who are Pete Carroll’s parents and siblings?
- What are Pete Carroll’s interests and hobbies?
- Is Pete Carroll married or does he have a girlfriend?
- Does Pete Carroll have any children?
- Where is Pete Carroll now?
- How tall is Pete Carroll?
- How much money does Pete Carroll earn?
- What is Pete Carroll’s net worth?
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Who is Pete Carroll?
Peter Clay Carroll, widely known as Pete Carroll is an American professional football coach. He is the current head coach and executive vice president for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). Previously, he was the head football coach at USC, where he won six bowl games and a BCS National Championship Game. He is one of the only three football coaches who have won both a Super Bowl and a college football national championship.
Carroll started his head coaching career on the professional level but got little success with the New York Jets and New England Patriots. This resulted in him shifting to college football with USC. As the Trojans head coach from 2000 to 2009, he revived the struggling program into a top-ranked contender and won the 2005 BCS National Championship, even though the title would be vacated by the NCAA.
Pete’s collegiate success prompted an NFL comeback in 2010 after he was hired as the head coach of Seattle. With Carroll as the head coach, the Seahawks have qualified for the playoffs nine times. They have also made two Super Bowl appearances and won the franchise’s first title in Super Bowl XLVIII. Their Legion of Boom defense additionally led the NFL in scoring for four consecutive seasons within his time.
How old is Pete Carroll?
Peter Clay Carroll was born on September 15, 1951, in San Francisco, California, U.S., and is aged 70 as of 2021. He shares his birthday with famous people including Oliver Stone, Tommy Lee Jones, Rene Russo, Tom Hardy, Jimmy Carr, Amy Davidson, William Howard Taft, Carmen Maura, among others.
Pete Carroll Family
Who are Pete Carroll’s parents?
Peter Clay Carroll was born in San Francisco, California to Rita Ban and James Edward ”Jim” Carroll. He was brought up in Greenbrae, California. His two paternal great-grandparents were Irish immigrants and his Croatian maternal grandparents were immigrants from the region of Sibenik.
Does Pete Carroll have siblings?
Carroll was born into a family of two children, all sons. He has an older brother, Jim Carroll, who was a college roommate of coach Bruce Coslet.
Pete Carroll Education
Carroll joined and studied at Greenbrae School in Greenbrae, California, before joining Redwood High School in Larkspur, California. He then attended the College of Marin, before transferring to the University of the Pacific. Carroll graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.
Pete Carroll Interest
Carroll was a multi-sport star in football in high school as he played quarterback, wide receiver, and defensive back. He also played basketball and baseball and received the school’s Athlete of the Year honors as a senior in 1969. Carroll was also inducted into the charter class of the Redwood High School Athletic Hall of Fame in April 2009. To date, he is still a basketball fan and plays it in his free time together with other coaches and friends.
Pete launched CampPete.com in April 2009, which is a multiplayer online game. It is ”billed as a ground-breaking Web site aimed at bringing Coach Carroll’s unique Win Forever philosophy to children all over the country taking advantage of one of the hottest technology trends online, the virtual world” The site can be accessed by creating a virtual avatar, comprising arcade-style games. motivational messages from Coach Carroll and a sports trivia part and a collection of virtual football skills workshops for kids. A section of the proceeds from CampPete.com goes to support A Better LA.
Pete Carroll Wife
Carroll was previously married to Wendy Pearl from 1973 to 1975. He is now is married to his sweetheart Glena Goranson, who he knew from college. She is a former indoor volleyball player at the University of the Pacific. Together the couple has three children from their happy and loving marriage from 1976.
Pete Carroll Kids
Carroll and his lovebird, Glena have three children together. They have two sons, first-born Brennan Carroll, Nathan Carroll, and Nate Carroll, and one daughter Jaime Carroll. Brennan and Nate have both been part of the Seahawks coaching staff under their father and played football in college and high school. Jaime is a former volleyball player on her school’s team just like her mother. Pete also has a grandchild, Dillon Brennan Carroll through Brennan and his wife Amber.
Pete Carroll Height
Carroll has a youthful, athletic, and well-built muscular body with a medium height of 5 ft 11 in (1.8 m) and a moderate weight of 79.4 kg (175.04 lbs).
Pete Carroll Net Worth
American football head coach and executive vice president of the Seattle Seahawks, Carroll has been serving from 2010 to the present. He has been ranked among the highly respected and highest-paid coaches in the NFL, winning various awards in his career. Carroll is among the highest-paid coaches and earns an annual salary of $11 million, and has garnered an estimated net worth of $30 million as of 2021.
Pete Carroll Career
After graduating from high school, Pete joined the junior college at the nearby College of Marin. Here he played football for two years, lettering in his second year, prior to transferring to the University of the Pacific, where he joined the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. After joining Pacific, he played free safety for two years for the Tigers, receiving All-Pacific Coast Athletic Conference honors both years (1971-72).
Following his graduation, Carroll tried out for the Honolulu Hawaiians of the World Football League at their training camp in Riverside. However, he did not make the team because of shoulder problems plus his small size. To sustain himself he got a job selling roofing materials in the Bay Area, however, he found out he did not fit there and moved on. This was the only job he took that was not related to football.
Collegiate assistant (1973-1983)
1973-1976
Pete’s positive and energetic personality impressed his head coach, Chester Caddas. After Caddas realized Carroll was interested in coaching, he gave him a job as a graduate assistant on his staff at Pacific. He agreed and enrolled as a graduate student, earning a secondary teaching credential and a Master’s degree in physical education in 1976. While he worked as a graduate assistant for three years and served with the wide receivers and secondary defenders. The assistants at Pacific during this time consisted of several of the future successful coaches such as Greg Robinson, Walt Harris, Bob Cope, Jim Colleto, and Ted Leland. Pete was later inducted into the Pacific Athletic Hall of Fame in 1995.
1977-1979
Following his graduation from Pacific, Carroll’s colleague Bob Cope was hired by the University of Arkansas. Bob convinced Holts the then head coach of the Razorbacks to also hire Caroll, who spent the 1977 season as a graduate assistant under Cope, making $182 a month. There he met his future line coach Pat Ruel, also a graduate assistant, as well as the future head coach of the Razorbacks Houston Nutt, who was a backup quarterback. Their Defensive Coordinator at the time, Monte Kiffin, would be a mentor to Carroll, who would later become Carroll’s offensive coordinator at USC and then head coach of the Oakland Raiders and Tennessee Volunteers and head coach of USC. The team won the 1978 Orange Boel that season.
1980-1983
The next season, Pete moved to Iowa State University, again as an assistant serving on the secondary under Earle Bruce. Later Bruce transferred to Ohio State University, taking Carroll along, who served as an assistant coach in charge of the secondary. The Ohio State squad made it to the 1980 Rose Bowl but lost to USC. In 1980, when Monte Kiffin, was named head coach of North Carolina State University, and brought Carroll in as his defensive coordinator and secondary coach. Bob Cope then became head coach of Pacific in 1983 and brought Carroll as an assistant head coach and defensive coordinator.
National Football League (1984-1999)
1984-1993
Pete departed from the Pacific after a year and joined the NFL as the defensive backs coach for the Buffalo Bills in 1984. The following year, he left for the Minnesota Vikings, holding a similar position there for five seasons (1985-89). He was a candidate for the head coaching position at Stanford University, but the role was given to Dennis Green. After great success with the Vikings, he got hired as a defensive coordinator by the New York Jets under Bruce Coslet for four seasons (1990-93). Coslet and Carroll were friends knowing each other for many years, as Carroll’s older brother was Closet’s college roommate. Carroll was a serious candidate for an opening for the Viking’s head coach position in 1992, but it went to Green again.
1994-1996
Pete was promoted to Head Coach of the Jets in 1994, as he was known for his youthful and energetic enthusiasm. The Jets completed the season with a record of 6-10 after a losing trend in several games, and Carroll was fired after one season. The next season, he got hired by the San Francisco 49ers as their defensive coordinator for the next two seasons (1995-96). In 1997, he was hired by the New England Patriots taking the place of coach Bill Parcels, where he rose again to success. Bill had resigned following disputes with the team’s ownership.
1997-1999
The Patriots won the AFC East division title in 1997, however, things took a turn losing in the wild card playoff round in 1998. They also missed the playoffs after a late-season slide in 1999, and he was fired after the 1999 season. Despite various NFL teams approaching him for defensive coordinator positions, he spent the 2000 season out. He served as a consultant for pro and college teams, doing charitable work for the NFL, and writing a column about pro football for CNNSI. com.
USC Trojans (2000-2009)
2000-2003
Pete was named the Trojans’ head coach on December 15, 2000, signing a five-year contract, replacing the recently fired coach Paul Hackett. Although he was not the team’s first choice, he suited well according to Mike Garrett’s plans. USC had pursued then-Oregon State Coach Dennis Erickson, Oregon coach Mike Bellotti, and San Diego Chargers coach Mike Riley. Carroll got support from former NFL players, including USC alumni such as Gary Plummer, Willie McGinest, Ronnie Lott, and Tim McDonald. By the first year of his hiring, numerous prominent critics reversed course. His hiring was named No. 1 in 2008, ESPN.com iN a list of the Pac-10’s top ten moments of the BCS era.
Criticism about him became louder when his first USC team started the 2001 season going 2-5. After the bad start, the Trojans proceeded to go 67-7 over the following 74 games, winning two national championships and playing for another. Carroll’s son Brennan Carroll was the team’s recruiting coordinator as well as the tight ends coach, while his father was a head coach.
2003-2009
The team won a then-school record 34 straight games from 2003 to 2005. Their win began after a loss to California and ended in the national championship game against the Texas Longhorns in the 2006 Rose Bowl. The success of USC football under Pete resulted in a sharp rise in overall athletic department revenue from $38.6 million in his first season to more than $76 million in 2007-08.
Carroll was originally hired with a five-year contract worth around $1 million per year. He received a great increase after the 2002 season and earned close to $3 million in the 2004 season, ending with USC winning the BCS title in January 2005. Carroll got a contract extension deal in December 2005 and his total compensation, including pay and benefits for the 2007 fiscal year was $4,415,714. It was then reported on January 11, 2010, that he would depart for a coaching position at the Seattle Seahawks. He told his players the previous evening that he would resign from coaching the Trojans to become the new head coach of the Seahawks.
Seattle Seahawks
2010
Following the firing of Jim L. Mora by the Seattle Seahawks after one season, it was rumored that Carroll was running for the job. He then came to an agreement with the Seahawks on a five-year contract appointing him as head coach. Officially being hired as head coach on January 11, and also named executive vice president of football operations, making him the general manager as well. Although, the Seahawks are having a general manager in John Scheider, who serves mainly in an advisory role to Carroll, who has the final say in football matters. Pete is among the three coaches who also has the powers of general manager together with New England’s Bill Belichick and Washington’s Ron Rivera.
Pete almost fully changed the Seahawks roster in his first season, totaling more than 200 transactions in the course of only one season. This made way for a 4-2 start to the 2010 season. They beat the NFL West opponents Rams in the final week of the regular season for the division championship and became the first 7-9 team in NFL history to win a division title. The Seahawks went on to beat the then-Super Bowl Champions New Orleans Saints by 41-36 in the Wild Card Round of the playoffs. However, they were defeated by the Chicago Bears, the next week at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. Despite beating the Bears earlier in the season they were defeated in the Divisional Round by a score of 35-24.
2011 season
Carroll coached the Seahawks again in 2011 to a 7-9 record, but not enough to get a playoff spot. This was because of the ascendance of Carroll’s old college rival coach Jim Harbaugh and division opponent San Francisco 49ers, who completed with a 13-3 record. This was the first season the Seahawks had a starting quarterback other than Matt Hasselbeck in more than a decade.
2012 season
Pete together with rookie quarterback Rusell Wilson guided the team to an 11-5 record, including going undefeated at home in his third season in 2012. This was their first winning season. His record was good enough to post their second playoff berth and they won their Wild Card Round playoff game on the road against the Redskins, and fellow rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III, 24-14. The Seahawks were defeated by the Atlanta Falcons the next week in the Divisional Round at the Georgia Dome by 30-28.
2013 season
The Seahawks started with four consecutive preseason victories and odd-makers have distinguished them as the favorite in the NFC. They also started the regular season with a 12-7 win at Carolina, and then beat the NFC Champions and divisional rival, the 49ers by 29-3. However, they got their first loss on October 6, to the Colts in Indianapolis, being the only loss till December. On the second match-up against the 49ers, they became the consensus best in NFC, with a record of 11-1. They failed to attain their streak of 15 games unbeaten at home when they lost to the Cardinals.
Cornerback Richard Sherman tipped a Colin Kaepernick pass into the waiting arms of Malcolm Smith to win by 23-17 against the 49ers. It was later nicknamed the Immaculate Deflection. Pete guided the Seahawks to their Super Bowl victory in franchise history on February 2, 2014, beating the Broncos 43-8, in Super Bowl XLVIII. He joined Barry Switzer and Jimmy Johnson as the only coaches to win both an NCAA championship and a Super Bowl. Carroll at the age of 62 was the third-oldest coach to win a Super Bowl, Dick Vermeil was 63 when the St. Louis Rams won Super Bowl XXXIV, and Tom Coughlin was 65 when the Giants won Super Bowl XLVI,
2014 season
The Seahawks began by beating the Packers on Thursday Night Football by 36-16 in the first game of the NFL season in 2014. In Week 3, they had a Super Bowl XLVIII rematch and again beat Peyton Manning and the Broncos by 26-10 in overtime. They started the season with a 6-4 record after losing to San Diego, Dallas, St. Louis, and Kansas City, three games behind the division-leading Cardinals. The Seahawks finished the regular season with 6-0 to complete with a 12-4 record after a team meeting after a Week 11 defeat. They beat the Panthers in the Divisional Round by 31-17, getting their second straight NFC Championship.
They were behind the Cardinals by 19-7 with just over two minutes left in the NFC Championship but put in a furious comeback to force overtime. Through Rusell Wilson hitting wide receiver Jermaine Kearse for a game-winning touchdown getting their second straight Super Bowl. However, they lost Super Bowl XLIX to Carroll’s former team, the Patriots by 28-24 with just 25 seconds down and a goal at the Patriots’ 1-yard line. The Seahawks were behind by four points and Carroll called for a pass play by Wilson, which was intercepted by Patriots cornerback Malcolm Butler on the goal line, ending the game.
2015 season
Following the conclusion of Super Bowl XLIX, the 2015 offseason was one full of criticism for Carroll, Wilson, and offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell. The season started with the Seahawks blowing fourth-quarter leads to Green Bay, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Arizona, and Carolina. They sat at 4-4, following their loss at home on Sunday Night Football to the division-leading Cardinals. Despite this, Pete improved the team and won their following five games, putting them at 9-5 and clinching a playoff berth. They then beat the NFC West champions, Arizona, by 36-6 on the road.
The Seahawks entered the postseason as No. 6 winning its Wild Card matchup against the Vikings. This was after the Vikings’ kicker missed a 27-yard field goal for a final score of 10-9. They later did not reach a third consecutive Super Bowl appearance after they lost to the Panthers in the Divisional Round 31-24, being down 31-0 at the half.
2016 season
Pete signed a three-year deal extension on July 25, 2016, with the Seahawks keeping him through the 2019 season. Despite having high expectations in the 2016 season, injuries to key players on both sides overcame the team. They began by a record of 4-1 in spite of Russell’s ankle injury. The Seahawks played with the Patriots and won by 31-24 despite their previous loss in Super Bowl XLIX to them and went up to 6-2-1. Pete attained his 100th regular-season victory the next week against the Eagles.
The Seahawks secured the NFC West in Week 15, after a 24-3 win against the Rams. This was Carroll’s fourth NFC West division title in his seven seasons with the team and sixth playoff appearance. They then beat the Lions in a 26-6 win in the Wild Card round, extending their playoff game win streak to 10 consecutive wins, 6 under Carroll. The Seahawks were eliminated in the divisional round for the second straight year losing 36-20 to the Falcons in 2016.
2017 season
Pete guided the Seahawks to a 9-7 record, in his eighth season with the team. They finished second in the NFC West but missed out on the playoffs for only the second time in his time with them.
2018 season
Carroll assisted the Seahawks to a 10-6 record and a second-place finish in the NFC West in the 2018 season. They returned to the playoffs, losing 24-22 to the Cowboys in the Wild Card Round. Pete attained victory No. 91 against the Raiders on October 16, 2018, becoming the Seahawks’ all-time wins leader. This consisted of the postseason, surpassing Mike Holmgren with a 91-56-1 record at that point.
2019 season
On his 68th birthday, Pete won his 100th game as the head coach for the Seahawks on September 15, 2019, beating the Steelers 28-26. Heading into Week 14, with a team record of 10-2, Carroll moved up five places to 23rd most on the all-time wins list. He passed Weeb Ewbank (134) Mike McCarthy (135), Hank Stram (136), John Fox (141), and Mike Tomlin (141). The team completed the season at 11-5, finishing second in the NFC West behind the 13-3 49ers. They were the 5th seed in the playoffs and they beat the Eagles 17-9 in the Wild Card round. Later they were eliminated in the Divisional round by the Packers by 28-23. Pete coached the NFC team in the 2020 Pro Bowl.
2020 season
On September 21, 2020, Carroll was fined US$100,000 by the NFL for not wearing a face mask properly. This was against how it is required for coaches in the COVID-19 pandemic, during a week 2 game in the 2020 NFL season. Pete and the Seahawks came to an agreement on a four-year contract extension on November 8, 2020. The Seahawks concluded the season with a 12-4 record and won their first division title since 2016. However, they lost in the Wild Card Round to the Rams.
