Keith Carl Karpinski (born October 12, 1966) is a former

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

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. He played for the

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in 1989.

College career

Karpinski attended and played college football at the

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from 1984 to 1988.

Professional career

Karpinski was selected in the 11th round (#282 overall) of the

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by the

Personal life

Karpinski is the current principal at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School in Sterling Heights,

Michigan Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the ...

. Karpinski and his wife Marilyn have two daughters.

References

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