Last Name

Carrier

First Name

Tony

Address

84 Mohawk Road

City/ST/Zip

Bristol, CT  06010

Telephone

860-583-8288

Date of Birth

3/14/49

Place of Birth

Bristol, CT.

Elementary School

St. Anthony’s

High School

St. Anthony’s High 64-65/Bristol Central 66-67

College

Quinnipiac/Southern CT. State University, B.S. & M.S. from S.C.S.U in PET Health

Bio Information

SPORTS CATEGORY

SPORTS PARTICIPATED IN

McCabe Waters Little League-3 years; St. Anthony’s Grammar School Basketball 1960-63; St. Anthony’s Grammar School Baseball 60-63; St. Anthony’s High School Soccer, basketball, baseball 64-65; Bristol Central soccer, basketball, baseball 66-67; coach JV soccer boys 73-86; coach Bristol Park & Rec. Coed, U-12 Boys; U-12 Girls 86-73; Girls coach JV soccer BCHS 1993; head coach girls soccer BCHS 94-present.

CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS YOU WERE ON

St. Anthony Grammar School Basketball American Conference Champs 63 undefeated; CYO Champs undefeated ’63; St. Anthony’s baseball champions American Conference ’63; Boys JV soccer BCHS 14 straight winning seasons back to back undefeated season 77-78 – never had a losing season; Girls Varsity soccer – back to back undefeated seasons ‘99 – 16-0; ‘2000 – 16-0; C.C.C. South Champions 99-2000.

ALL-LEAGUE/ETC. YOU WERE ON

Girls soccer; coached over 40 All Conference players; 3 All State Players; 1 All New England Player.

STATISTICS

Personal: Co-Captain of undefeated St. Anthony’s Grammar School basketball team ’63 League Champions; Captain of St. Anthony’s Grammar School baseball team ’63 League Champions; Captain of Freshman basketball St. Anthony’s ’64 18 pt. average; Captain of Bristol Central High baseball team – ’67; Athlete of the Year at Bristol Central ’67; Batting average over .300# in baseball career; JV soccer Boys Bristol Central 14 straight winning seasons – never had a losing season ’73-86; back to back undefeated seasons ’77-78; during a 5 yr. span was 54-3; overall record after 14 yrs. 134-32-18.  Coached park & rec. ’80-93; coached coed level U-13; coach U-13 boys; coached U-13 girls; during these 7 years coaching all these levels – lost just 1 game. BCHS Girls Soccer – took over program in ’94 that previously had 13 straight losing seasons; in ’97 his team made 1^st tournament appearance and have been there 13 straight years since then.  Had back to back undefeated 16-0 regular seasons in

’99 and ‘2000, both conference championship years for Central; ’99 team had a record of 17-1; best in school history as well as city history. From ’99-‘2000, ‘2001 had a 46-1-1 record scoring 256 goals, 28 shut outs both city & school records in boys and girls soccer.  Have placed over 75 players on the C.C.C. South All Conference teams; had 6 All State Players in BriAnn Bruni, Tara Peterson, Stephanie O’Neil, Meredith Rogers, Samantha Webber, and Elise Galipo; 1 All New England player – BriAnn Bruni; ‘2000 team scored 105 goals allowed 4 and recorded 13 shut outs; city & school records both boys or girls soccer. Leading goalkeeper in school and city history is Sam Webber with 41 career shutouts. From 2005-2008 his team captured four straight C.C.C. South Championships going an incredible 34-1-5 over their divisional foes during that time they captured 6 Conference Championships overall and after 16 seasons has an overall record of 165-82-31 leading scorer in both boys or girls soccer for city and school records – BriAnn Bruni 97 total goals; leading goal keeper in city & school history both boys & girls Tara Peterson, 31 career shut outs.

RECOGNITION YOU HAVE RECEIVED

2002 Connecticut State High Schools Coaches Association Coach of the Year for Girls Soccer. In 2006 received the Bristol Tramps Bill Garrett Award. In 2007 was selected Coach of the Year by the Connecticut Girls Soccer Coaches Association, and also in 2007 received the Ralph Papazian Award.

TELL US MORE

I was born and raised in Bristol all of my life.  I attended St. Anthony’s Grammar School and graduated in ’63.  I then attended St. Anthony’s high for two years and left because they discontinued all sports.  During my Junior and Senior years, I attended Bristol Central High School and earned “Athlete of the Year” in ’67. I then went to Quinnipiac College for two years and transferred to Southern CT. State Univ. earning both a Bachelor and Masters of Science degrees in Physical Education and Health. I have been teaching and coaching in Bristol for 37 years. I am married and will be celebrating my 36^th wedding anniversary in April ‘2010 and I have two children – Christina (30) who is in her 9^th  year teaching Spanish in Newington and my son Michael (27) who is in his 1^st year of teaching science in Simsbury..

SCHOLARSHIP/ACADEMICS