Football
- Title:
- Director of High School Relations
- Email:
- clint-rountree@utulsa.edu
- Phone:
- 3619
Clint Rountree, a 2006 graduate of The University of Tulsa, is in his 10th year overall at Tulsa, while serving his seventh season as the director of recruiting and high school relations for the Golden Hurricane.
Following three coaching seasons away from his alma mater, Rountree returned to Tulsa in 2010 as a defensive graduate assistant coach, when he assisted with coaching the Hurricane linebackers. Rountree was appointed to his present position on January 21, 2011.
Following his collegiate playing career, Rountree spent the 2005 Conference USA Championship season as a student assistant with the Hurricane and was a graduate assistant coach in 2006, while assisting with coaching the defensive secondary both years.
Rountree has been involved in nine Bowl games, including one as a player and seven as a staff member. He played in the Humanitarian Bowl following the 2003 season, while he has been on the Tulsa staff for the 2005 Liberty Bowl, 2006 Armed Forces Bowl, 2010 Sheraton Hawai’i Bowl, 2011 Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl, 2012 AutoZone Liberty Bowl, 2015 Camping World Independence Bowl and 2016 Miami Beach Bowl. He also coached in the 2007 Division II Rotary Bowl with Colorado School of the Mines.
In the 2007, Rountree was the wide receivers coach at Colorado Mines, helping that school post a 7-5 record and finish No. 1 for passing offense in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.
Rountree then moved to Delta State (Miss.) University, where he spent two seasons (2008-09) as the defensive secondary coach. In 2008, Delta State won the conference championship, posted a 10-2 record and finished the season ranked No. 6 nationally in NCAA Division II. The Delta State defense ranked No. 1 in the Gulf South Conference during the 2008 campaign, while in 2009 ranked No. 2 in pass defense efficiency.
Rountree was a four-year letterwinner for Tulsa from 2001-04. He began his collegiate career as a receiver and moved to the defensive secondary as a sophomore. Rountree played in 48 career games, while starting 27 contests for the Hurricane.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in exercise sports science from Tulsa in 2006.
Rountree and his wife, Renae, who is also a University of Tulsa graduate, were married in December 2017.
