Clint Trickett

Clint Trickett was born on 19th March, 1991 in Morgantown, West Virginia to Tara and Rick Trickett. He has two elder brothers, one of whom (Travis) is an offensive coordinator for Georgia State University’s football team. Rick Trickett, his father is presently coaching FSU Seminoles and was an erstwhile coach at WVU.

Born in Morgantown, the largest city in North-Central West Virginia, Clint Trickett spent the better part of his growing up years in the city. He considers Rick Trickett, his father, an offensive line coach who trained quarterbacks and starters at West Virginia University (and later on FSU Seminoles), as his chief influence in encouraging him to practice the sport. He went to North Florida Christian School, clearing high school with a 3.8 GPA (or a 93% percentile grade) score and also earned a 3-star position from ‘Scout’ and ‘Rivals.com’ as a budding football player.

Clint Trickett was with the Philadelphia Eagles—a professional gridiron football franchise in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—for three seasons where he chucked 59 touchdowns and collected over 5,300 passing yards for the small state school. Clint, as a collegiate football player, divided his time between Florida State University and West Virginia University where he accomplished 5,837 career yards and 32 touchdowns. Over 60% of these passing numbers were achieved as an active Seminole for two seasons in FSU, Morgantown, and garnered 67.1% of his 3,285 yards and 18 touchdowns at West Virginia University in his fifth year.

His association with Florida State Seminoles began in the season 2010-11 as a redshirted freshman when he substituted EJ Manuel who often had to leave the field owing to injuries. He played in a total of 9 games in the season that included two starts out of which one was for Clemson Tigers—the football squad of Clemson University. The other start was for FSU where he stood in for Manuel in his sophomore year (2012) in eight matches overall and effectively completed 22 out of 34 passes covering 272 yards.

E.J. Manuel left to compete in the NFL draft for the 2012-13 Season and his position was up for grabs between Clint, Jacob Coker and Jameis Winston. Redshirted freshman Jameis stunning performance during the practice camp in spring put paid to Trickett’s chances of starting afresh in the new season. Clint made up his mind to relocate to Morgantown to try his luck with West Virginia Mountaineers—the football team of WVU

For the two seasons that Clint Trickett represented FSU Seminoles, he collected a total of 947 passing yards, pitched 7 touchdowns, and completed 4 interceptions. Clint had long been planning to shift back to his hometown to play for WVU and this meticulous preparation helped him to complete his graduation as well as find a place in FSU’s first-team. He had to vie with Ford Childless and Paul Millard for the starter position at Mountaineers who proved to be remarkably competitive.