Princeton University Athletics
Garrett, Thompson, Carril To Appear At "A Night With Coaches"
July 09, 2015 | General
The event is called "A Night With Coaches." To the average Princeton fan, it might as well be called "A Night With Some Of Our Favorite Coaches Of All Time."
Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett, Georgetown men's basketball head coach John Thompson and Hall of Fame basketball coach Pete Carril will be appearing together for "A Night of Coaches" this coming Wednesday, July 15, at of all places, Conte's on Witherspoon Street.
The three will be part of a night of "friendship, laughter, great stories and conversation," all to benefit the A-T Children's Project and the Derek's Dreams foundation. Derek's Dreams is named for Derek DiGregorio, who suffers from A-T, or Ataxia Telangiectasia, a rare neurodegenarative disease that has no cure.
Garrett, a 1989 Princeton graduate and the 1988 Bushnell Cup winner as the Ivy League football Player of the Year, still holds the league record for career completion percentage at 66.5%. He spent 12 years as an NFL quarterback and was the back-up QB to Troy Aikman on two Super Bowl championship teams. He became the head coach in Dallas late in the 2010 season, and he has held the position ever since. Last season he led the Cowboys to the NFC East title and the playoffs.
Thompson, who graduated from Princeton a year earlier than Garrett, is one of the greatest passers in Princeton basketball history. He went on to become an assistant coach at Princeton under Carril and Bill Carmody and then succeeded Carmody as the head coach prior to the start of the 2000-01 season, beginning a four-year stretch as head coach that saw him lead the Tigers to three Ivy League championships, two NCAA tournaments and one NIT. He then became the Georgetown head coach, and he has led the Hoyas to eight NCAA tournaments - and one Final Four - and three NITs in 11 seasons as the head coach.
Carril won 13 Ivy League championships and led the Tigers to 11 NCAA tournaments and the 1975 NIT championship in his 29 years as head coach at Princeton. He would finish his Princeton career with a record of 514-261, and, with his year as head coach at Lehigh, would have an overall record of 525-273. His final season at Princeton saw the Tigers defeat defending-champion UCLA in the first round of the 1996 NCAA tournament. A 1998 inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Carril also spent nearly 15 years as an assistant coach in the NBA.
For more information on the event and the A-T Children's Project, please click HERE.