Cornell University Athletics

Recruiting Areas: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey (South, Central), New York (Nassau County), Virginia, Washington D.C., West Virginia.

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Peter McCarty joined the Cornell coaching staff in the spring of 2010 as the defensive line coach under Kent Austin and will continue working to develop a young group of linemen in 2012.
 
McCarty has more than 30 years invested in coaching defense at the college level, including stops at Stanford, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Illinois, Syracuse, Central Florida and Holy Cross prior to his latest gig as defensive line coach at Western Michigan. He has also worked with linebackers over the years. 

McCarty was the defensive tackles coach in 2001 under George O'Leary, while his four seasons at Illinois included a spot in the 1999 Micronpc.com Bowl. That was one of three bowl teams at different schools he has been a part of, joining the 2005 Hawaii Bowl team at UCF and the 2001 Seattle Bowl squad at Georgia Tech. McCarty spent the 1991 campaign as an intern for the New England Patriots.

A 1977 graduate of the University of Massachusetts, where he was an all-conference linebacker on the gridiron, McCarty earned a degree in education. He went on to get a master's in physical education from Syracuse in 1982.

* - updated December 16, 2011