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Mike Tomlin Mike Tomlin coaching a regular season Steelers home game in 2007. Date of birth March 15, 1972 (1972-03-15) (age 36) Place of birth Newport News, Virginia, USA Position(s) Head coach College William & Mary Awards 2008 Motorola NFL Coach of the Year Career record 22–10–0 (Regular Season) 3–1 (Postseason) 25–11–0 wins Super Bowl XLIII Championships won 2008 AFC Championship Coaching stats Pro Football Reference Team(s) as a coach/administrator 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999-2000 2001–2005 2006 2007-present Virginia Military Institute (wide receivers coach) University of Memphis (graduate assistant) Arkansas State University (wide receivers coach) Arkansas State University (defensive backs coach) University of Cincinnati (defensive backs coach) Tampa Bay Buccaneers (defensive backs coach) Minnesota Vikings (defensive coordinator) Pittsburgh Steelers (head coach) Mike Tomlin (born March 15, 1972) is an American football head coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. Tomlin is the third youngest head coach in any of the four major North American professional sports. He is the tenth African-American head coach in NFL history, and first in Steelers history. Tomlin is the third African-American to coach to participate in the Super Bowl and the second to win it. With the Steelers' victory in Super Bowl XLIII on February 1, 2009, Tomlin became the youngest head coach to lead his team to a Super Bowl victory. Contents [hide] 1 Biography 1.1 Playing Biography Playing career Tomlin attended Denbigh High School in Newport News, Virginia, and was a three-year starter as a wide receiver/tight end for the College of William and Mary. He finished his career with a school-record 20 touchdown catches. He was a second-team All-Yankee Conference selection in 1994. Tomlin never played in the NFL. Coaching career College Tomlin's coaching career began in 1995 as the wide receiver coach at Virginia Military Institute under current West Virginia University head coach Bill Stewart. He spent the 1996 season as a graduate assistant at the University of Memphis, where he worked with the defensive backs and special teams. Following a brief stint on the University of Tennessee at Martin's coaching staff, Tomlin was hired by Arkansas State University in 1997 to coach its defensive backs. Tomlin stayed there for two seasons, before being hired as defensive backs coach by the University of Cincinnati.
National Football League Assistant Coach Tomlin was hired as the defensive backs coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2001, where he first learned the Tampa 2 defense that he would use in later coaching | ||||
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