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Princeton University Athletics
Carril Earns Carl A. Fields Memorial University Service Award From ABPA
June 11, 2008 | Men's Basketball
Legendary Tiger basketball coach Pete Carril was presented with the Dr. Carl A. Fields Memorial University Service Award by the Association of Black Princeton Alumni (ABPA) in a ceremony May 31 on the Princeton campus.
Carril, a 1997 inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame after 29 seasons and 514 victories on the Tiger bench, received the distinguished award for his "many years of coaching, educating and positively influencing Princeton basketball players, and especially black players."
Often, Coach Carril has deflected the individual recognition he has received
and chosen to spotlight the players, assistant coaches, professors and
supporters of the program that he worked with over the years," says Princeton head coach Sydney Johnson '97. "Even so,
we all are smarter and better in our respective pursuits largely due
to our interactions with Coach Carril. He is a true teacher."
In attendance at the ceremony were several of Carril's former players, including Johnson, current Georgetown head coach and former Princeton head coach John Thompson III '88, Tiger great Brian Taylor '84, director of the View Park Prep Accelerated Charter Middle School in South Los Angeles, Craig Robinson '83, head coach at Oregon State, and John W. Rogers Jr. '80, chairman and CEO of Ariel Capital Management in Chicago.
Carril joins Rogers, Thompson and Steve Mills '81, president and chief operating officer of Madison Square Garden Sports, as former members of the Princeton men's basketball program who have been honored by the ABPA.