Glenn Caruso
![]() Caruso in 2019 | |
Current position | |
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Title | Head coach |
Team | St. Thomas (MN) |
Conference | PFL |
Record | 151–28 |
Biographical details | |
Born | Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S. | May 20, 1974
Playing career | |
1992–1995 | Ithaca |
Position(s) | Center |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1996 | Ithaca (GA/OL) |
1997–2002 | North Dakota State (OC/RB/TE) |
2003 | Wisconsin–Eau Claire (OC/OL) |
2004–2005 | South Dakota (OC/QB) |
2006–2007 | Macalester |
2008–present | St. Thomas (MN) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 157–39 |
Tournaments | 19–8 (NCAA D-III playoffs) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
7 MIAC (2010–2012, 2015–2017, 2019) 1 PFL (2022) | |
Awards | |
3× Liberty Mutual COY (2010–2012) 2× AFCA NCAA Division III COY (2012, 2015) 6× MIAC Coach of the Year (2010–2012, 2015–2017) | |
Glenn Caruso (born May 20, 1974) is an American football coach. He is the head football coach at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota, a position he had held since the 2008 season. Caruso served as the head football coach at Macalester College from 2006 to 2007. He has been awarded the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award for NCAA Division III three times: 2010, 2011 and 2012.[1][2]
Coaching career
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In his first season at St. Thomas, in 2008, Caruso led the Tommies to a 7–3 record after the team had finished 2–8 the previous year.
After guiding the 2015 Tommies to the NCAA Division III Football Championship Game with a 14–1 record, Caruso was voted by his peers as the Division III National Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA). It was Caruso's 6th national coach of the year award, the most of any active NCAA Division III football coach.
During 2021 Caruso led St. Thomas' unprecedented leap from Division III to Division I. In the school's first year at Division I, St. Thomas posted a 7–3 record and finished 3rd in the Pioneer League. In 2022, the 2nd season of being a Division 1 program, 17 months into the transition, Caruso led St. Thomas to an undefeated conference championship, the university's first ever in any sport in its Division 1 era.
Head coaching record
[edit]Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | STATS# | Coaches° | ||
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Macalester Scots (NCAA Division III independent) (2006–2007) | |||||||||
2006 | Macalester | 2–7 | |||||||
2007 | Macalester | 4–5 | |||||||
Macalester: | 6–12 | ||||||||
St. Thomas Tommies (Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (2008–2020) | |||||||||
2008 | St. Thomas | 7–3 | 5–3 | T–2nd | |||||
2009 | St. Thomas | 11–2 | 7–1 | 2nd | L NCAA Division III Quarterfinal | ||||
2010 | St. Thomas | 12–1 | 8–0 | 1st | L NCAA Division III Quarterfinal | ||||
2011 | St. Thomas | 13–1 | 8–0 | 1st | L NCAA Division III Semifinal | ||||
2012 | St. Thomas | 14–1 | 8–0 | 1st | L NCAA Division III Championship | ||||
2013 | St. Thomas | 8–2 | 6–2 | T–2nd | |||||
2014 | St. Thomas | 8–3 | 6–2 | T–2nd | L NCAA Division III First Round | ||||
2015 | St. Thomas | 14–1 | 8–0 | 1st | L NCAA Division III Championship | ||||
2016 | St. Thomas | 12–1 | 8–0 | 1st | L NCAA Division III Quarterfinal | ||||
2017 | St. Thomas | 11–2 | 8–0 | 1st | L NCAA Division III Quarterfinal | ||||
2018 | St. Thomas | 8–2 | 6–2 | 3rd | |||||
2019 | St. Thomas | 8–2 | 7–1 | T–1st | |||||
2020–21 | No team—COVID-19 | ||||||||
St. Thomas Tommies (Pioneer Football League) (2021–present) | |||||||||
2021 | St. Thomas | 7–3 | 6–2 | T–3rd | |||||
2022 | St. Thomas | 10–1 | 8–0 | 1st | 20 | ||||
2023 | St. Thomas | 8–3 | 7–1 | 2nd | |||||
2024 | St. Thomas | 0–0 | 0–0 | ||||||
St. Thomas: | 151–28 | 107–14 | |||||||
Total: | 157–39 | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth |
References
[edit]- ^ "St. Thomas' Caruso a repeat winner in Coach of Year honor". Star Tribune. January 10, 2012. Archived from the original on January 17, 2012. Retrieved January 11, 2012.
- ^ "Coach of the Year: Glenn Caruso Division III". Liberty Mutual. Archived from the original on August 1, 2012. Retrieved January 11, 2012.
External links
[edit]- St. Thomas profile Archived 2021-02-09 at the Wayback Machine
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