Jesuit Dallas Athletics

Carl Pellegrini was a leader in both football and track & field at Jesuit. In football, he lettered three years, served as captain as a senior and received All-State honors. In track, he lettered all four years. He served as captain his junior and senior years and was an acclaimed high school All-American.

Pellegrini was the nation’s top-ranked high school discus thrower during his senior year setting a new Texas high school distance mark and posting the longest high school throw in the nation that year with a distance of 189'5". His accomplishments were later recognized at the Dallas All-Sports Association Banquet as one of the city's top athletes. Pellegrini set new discus records in the last 10 major high school meets in which he participated, set several shot put records and was also Jesuit’s top sprinter as a senior. The Athletic Journal featured a multi-page article dedicated to Dallas Jesuit’s track phenom. In 1961, Pellegrini set the TCIL State Meet record in the discus.

Pellegrini attended the University of Oklahoma on a track scholarship where he ultimately won the Big Eight Conference Discus Championship. In 1965, he was selected as the Gold Medallion Top Scholar Athlete in the Conference.