Brad Trout or A. Bradley Trout Jr was born and raised in Miami, Florida. He attended Hialeah Miami-Lakes High School where he played safety, served as a captain of the Trojans football team, and was selected for the All State Team. In 1993, he received a scholarship go

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. His senior year, he was a captain, was awarded Blazers' Defensive Player of the Year and made the All-Gulf South Conference Team. In 1998, he signed as a free agent with the

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as a free safety. He went on to play for the

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for two years where they allocated him to

NFL Europe NFL Europe League (simply called NFL Europe and known in its final season as NFL Europa) was a professional American football league that functioned as the List of developmental and minor sports leagues, developmental minor league of the Nati ...

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. While playing for the Dragons, he was awarded Defensive Player of the Week, made the All-NFL Europe Team and led the Dragons in tackles and interceptions. In 2000, Brad was drafted by the XFL's

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where he was chosen as a defensive captain and made the all-XFL team (#36). After the XFL he was signed by the NFL's

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where he retired early due to injury. On March 24, 2002, Trout was waived by the

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. Trout then became a physical education teacher for the lower, upper, and middle schools at The Walker School in Marietta, Georgia. He was also the defensive coordinator for Walker's high school football team. Trout was also the high school head golf coach. He left The Walker School in 2008. He has coached at South Cobb High School in Austell, Georgia, since 2009.

References

"The Walker School: Directory"
''thewalkerschool.org''
"NFL Europe.com - Iron Men revealed"
''nfleurope.com.''
NFL Europe.com - Stecker going bowling
''nfleurope.com''.

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