| Glenn Caruso | |
| Current Title: | Head coach |
| Current Team: | St. Thomas (MN) |
| Current Conference: | PFL |
| Current Record: | 157–34 |
| Birth Date: | 20 May 1974 |
| Birth Place: | Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Player Years1: | 1992–1995 |
| Player Team1: | Ithaca |
| Player Positions: | Center |
| Coach Years1: | 1996 |
| Coach Team1: | Ithaca (GA/OL) |
| Coach Years2: | 1997–2002 |
| Coach Team2: | North Dakota State (OC/RB/TE) |
| Coach Years3: | 2003 |
| Coach Team3: | Wisconsin–Eau Claire (OC/OL) |
| Coach Years5: | 2004–2005 |
| Coach Team5: | South Dakota (OC/QB) |
| Coach Years6: | 2006–2007 |
| Coach Team6: | Macalester |
| Coach Years7: | 2008–present |
| Coach Team7: | St. Thomas (MN) |
| Overall Record: | 163–46 |
| Tournament Record: | 19–8 (NCAA D-III playoffs) |
| 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]
Glenn Caruso was born to Mr. & Mrs. Frank Caruso. His father was a lawyer in the Greenwich, Connecticut area. At the age of four, Caruso was diagnosed with leukemia.[3] After hearing that his son wouldn't live until his fifth birthday, Frank Caruso drove his family to the Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré to pray for healing; Glenn ended up recovering from the disease.[4] Caruso's mother died when he was eight. He was a lineman for Greenwich High School, and was the starting center at Ithaca College. He considered law school, but eventually was hired by North Dakota State head coach Bob Babich.
In 1998 he was on a committee for the Special Olympics, where he met his wife.
Caruso served as the head football coach at Macalester College from 2006 to 2007. His record for the 2006 season was 2–7, and his record for the 2007 season was 4–5.
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.
In 2009, Brandon Staley was Caruso's defensive line coach.[5]
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 second season of being a Division I program, 17 months into the transition, Caruso led St. Thomas to an undefeated conference championship.
Caruso married his wife, Rachel, on Memorial Day weekend in 2001. They have three children: Anna, Cade, and Truman.[6] Rachel was diagnosed with cancer in 2017.[6] Caruso is a Catholic and considers "faith, family, and football" to be the most important things in his life.[7]
In 2023, his daughter Anna was the head coach for a 14U girl's softball team, and asked Caruso to be her assistant coach.[5]