Caleb Pressley (born November 13, 1992) is an American
blogger
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,
podcaster
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, and interviewer for the sports and
pop culture
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Arts, entertainment, and media Music
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* Pop!, a UK pop group
* Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band
Albums
* ''Pop'' ...
blog
Barstool Sports
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. In college, Pressley was a
quarterback
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on the
North Carolina Tar Heels
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football team. He hosts the Sundae Conversations series on the Barstool Sports
Youtube
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channel.
Early life and education
Pressley was born to Bill and Heather Lee Pressley – his father was a
race car driver
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. His uncle
Robert
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and cousin
Coleman were former
NASCAR
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drivers.
Pressley attended
A. C. Reynolds High School
A.C. Reynolds High School is a public secondary school located in Asheville, North Carolina. The school accommodates grades 9-12 and is a part of the Buncombe County Schools System. Mr. Ben Alexander is A.C. Reynold's principal.
Honors
*Nation ...
in his hometown of
Asheville, North Carolina, where he played
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 wit ...
as
quarterback
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for 4 years. He attended high school with country music singers
Luke Combs
Luke Albert Combs (; born March 2, 1990) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Born and raised in North Carolina, Combs began performing as a child, most notably performing at Carnegie Hall. After dropping out of college to pursue ...
and
Chase Rice
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. He also played
basketball
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and ran
track and field
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for 3 years. In football, Pressley guided his team to the North Carolina 4-A state championship in 2009, where he was named the game's MVP. He was voted as First-team All-Western N.C. in 2009 and All-Conference in 2010. In total, he passed for 4,385 yards, 39 touchdowns and ran for 1,414 yards and 22 touchdowns during his high school career.
College
Pressley was a walk-on quarterback for the
NCAA Division I
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North Carolina Tar Heels football
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team starting in 2010. Pressley played two games in total before leaving on exchange at the
University of Edinburgh
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in 2014 and retiring immediately upon his return. He was given an assistant manager role with the football team, where he had the unofficial title Supervisor of Morale, where he was entrusted with signalling plays as well as improving the morale of the team.
Barstool Sports
Pressley received national attention with his role as Supervisor of Morale of the
North Carolina Tar Heels
The North Carolina Tar Heels are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The name Tar Heel is a nickname used to refer to individuals from the state of North Carolina, the ''Tar Heel ...
football team. In 2015, he was offered a role with the blog website
Barstool Sports
Barstool Sports is an American blog website and digital media company headquartered in New York City that produces content on sports and pop culture. Founded by David Portnoy in 2003 in Milton, Massachusetts, the company's two primary owners are ...
after his graduation, after an interview they had with him. In 2016, he launched the Dixie Tour with Barstool Sports, a project providing coverage of college football across America. That same year he was also involved in a
podcast
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called "Young & Happy". In 2020, he started his own podcast called 51 Strokes, as he went on a journey to become a professional
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...
player. Pressley is a regular interviewer for Barstool Sports, with various viral videos with celebrities.
Appearances in media
Podcasts
* ''Young & Happy''
ith Adam Ferrone(2016–2019)
* ''The Caleb Pressley Show'' (2016)
* ''51 Strokes'' (2020–2022)
* ''Sundae Conversation'' (2021–present)
Filmography
References
External links
*
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1992 births
Living people
21st-century American comedians
Artists from Asheville, North Carolina
Sportspeople from Asheville, North Carolina
American male comedians
American podcasters
American football quarterbacks
Barstool Sports people
Comedians from North Carolina
Players of American football from North Carolina
North Carolina Tar Heels football players