Glenn Caruso
Caruso in 2019
Current position
TitleHead coach
TeamSt. Thomas (MN)
ConferencePFL
Record151–28
Biographical details
Born (1974-05-20) May 20, 1974 (age 49)
Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.
Playing career
1992–1995Ithaca
Position(s)Center
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1996Ithaca (GA/OL)
1997–2002North Dakota State (OC/RB/TE)
2003Wisconsin–Eau Claire (OC/OL)
2004–2005South Dakota (OC/QB)
2006–2007Macalester
2008–presentSt. Thomas (MN)
Head coaching record
Overall157–39
Tournaments19–8 (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

Caruso in 2016.

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

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs STATS# Coaches°
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
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
St. Thomas: 151–28 107–14
Total: 157–39
      National championship         Conference title         Conference division title or championship game berth

References

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ "Coach of the Year: Glenn Caruso Division III". Liberty Mutual. Archived from the original on August 1, 2012. Retrieved January 11, 2012.

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