Anthony Robert Petersen was born on October 9,1966 and is an American college football coach and former quarterback.
26 Facts About Tony Petersen
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Tony Petersen is the offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach for Illinois State University.
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Tony Petersen played college football at Marshall, where he broke school records and won Southern Conference Offensive Player of the Year award as a senior in 1987.
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Since 1990, Tony Petersen has been an offensive assistant at various college football programs.
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Later in his career, Tony Petersen was offensive coordinator at Minnesota from 2000 to 2006, again at Marshall from 2010 to 2012, and Louisiana Tech from 2013 to 2015, winning six bowl games in those years.
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At San Joaquin Delta, Tony Petersen played at quarterback on the football team in 1984 and 1985.
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Tony Petersen pitched on the San Joaquin Delta baseball team and was selected by the Kansas City Royals in the 16th round of the January 1986 Major League Baseball Draft.
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Tony Petersen transferred to Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia in 1986.
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Tony Petersen shared starting duties at quarterback on the Marshall Thundering Herd in the 1986 season and started every game in 1987.
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Tony Petersen set 16 Southern Conference single-season and career records in passing and total offense, to go along with six Marshall single-season school marks.
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Tony Petersen graduated from Marshall with a Bachelor of Arts in education in 1990.
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Tony Petersen then returned to Marshall in 1991 in the beginning of an eight-year tenure as assistant coach in various roles.
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Tony Petersen moved to coaching wide receivers in 1992, when he helped in the development of future NFL wide receiver and three-time Super Bowl champion Troy Brown during the run to the Division I-AA title.
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From 1999 to 2006, Tony Petersen was an offensive assistant coach at Minnesota under Glen Mason.
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Tony Petersen was passing game coordinator in 1999 before serving as co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2000 to 2006.
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From 2007 to 2008, Tony Petersen was quarterbacks coach at Iowa State under Gene Chizik, helping senior quarterback Bret Meyer set school record totals for passing yards and total offense.
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Under Doc Holliday, Tony Petersen began his second stint as Marshall assistant coach in 2010, as assistant head coach, co-offensive coordinator, and quarterbacks coach.
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Tony Petersen helped Marshall win the 2011 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl.
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In 2012, Tony Petersen coached sophomore quarterback Rakeem Cato, who would lead Division I FBS in completions per game and become the first underclass winner of the Conference USA MVP award.
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In 2013, Tony Petersen became offensive coordinator at Louisiana Tech under Skip Holtz.
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Tony Petersen was offensive coordinator at East Carolina under Scottie Montgomery from 2016 to 2018.
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In 2019, Tony Petersen was an offensive analyst at Missouri under Barry Odom.
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Tony Petersen returned to being an offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach the following year at Appalachian State under Shawn Clark.
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In 2021, Tony Petersen was the offensive coordinator at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, under coach Bret Bielema.
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On January 18,2022, Tony Petersen was named offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach at Illinois State.
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Tony Petersen's grandfather Ike Petersen was a running back in the NFL from 1935 to 1936.