Craig Fouhy
.jpg) Fouhy in 2013 | |
| Playing career | |
|---|---|
| 1972–1975 | Pacific Lutheran |
| Position(s) | Offensive tackle |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1976–1977 | Lake Roosevelt HS (WA) |
| 1978 | Coupeville HS (WA) |
| 1979–1981 | Sumner HS (WA) (assistant) |
| 1982 | Montana (assistant OL) |
| 1983–1984 | Tahoma HS (WA) |
| 1985 | Montana (RB) |
| 1987–1988 | North Park |
| 1991 | Bothell HS (WA) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 1–17 (college) 16–38 (high school) |
Craig Fouhy is an American sports broadcaster and former football player and coach. He presently is the sports director and sports anchor for KNXV-TV in Phoenix, Arizona.[1]
Playing career
[edit]Fouhy played college football at Pacific Lutheran from 1972 to 1975 as a three-time All-Conference, All-District, All-West Coast, and Honorable Mention All-American offensive tackle under College Football Hall of Fame coach Frosty Westering. He was selected a Team Captain and Most Inspirational player in 1975.[1][2]
Coaching career
[edit]Fouhy's coaching career spanned 13 seasons in high school football and six at the college level. Towards the end, he also had a two-year run as a middle school basketball coach.
Before entering the college coaching ranks as the assistant offensive line coach at the University of Montana in 1982, Fouhy spent six years as an assistant and head coach on the high school level in Washington, where he returned between his two one-year stints with the Grizzlies. From 1987 to 1988, he compiled a 1–17 record as head football coach of at North Park College—now known as North Park University—in Chicago, where he also coached the golf team.
Following his two-year tenure at North Park, Fouhy again returned to Washington, where he taught and coached basketball at Explorer Middle School from 1990–91 and coached football at Bothell High School in 1991. Prior to the 1991 season, Fouhy was named head coach of the Juanita High School football team, only to resign one week later.[3]
During his six seasons as a high school head football coach in the state of Washington, Fouhy compiled a 16–38 (.296) record.
Broadcasting career
[edit]Fouhy was hired by KNXV-TV in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1998 after coaching high school and college football for 18 years and middle school basketball for two. He has also worked as a play-by-play announcer and color commentator for college football on television and radio. He also served as a Public Address Announcer for the Arizona Cardinals, Milwaukee Brewers, Seattle Pacific University, Arizona State University and the University of Washington. He was part of the Arizona Cardinals Radio Team for 5 seasons in the early 2000.[1]
Head coaching record
[edit]College
[edit]| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Park Vikings (College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) (1987–1988) | |||||||||
| 1987 | North Park | 0–9 | 0–8 | 9th | |||||
| 1988 | North Park | 1–8 | 1–7 | T–8th | |||||
| North Park: | 1–17 | 1–15 | |||||||
| Total: | 1–17 | ||||||||
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Craig Fouhy (bio)". KNXV-TV. Archived from the original on February 18, 2014. Retrieved October 26, 2017.
- ^ Guterson, David (October 31, 1994). "Frosty The Showman-Pacific Lutheran coach Frosty Westering proves you can have fun and win". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on September 21, 2010. Retrieved November 8, 2013.
- ^ "Juanita's Loss, Bothell's Gain -- Bothell Tabs Fouhy For Head Football Job". Seattle Times. Archived from the original on October 27, 2017. Retrieved October 26, 2017.