Dolores Halteman is the ex-wife of legendary Princeton Tigers men’s basketball team coach Pete Carril who passed away on Moday, August 15, 2022 aged 92.
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Details such as when the pair got married have not been made public. However, the pair are reported to have been separated and were not married at the time of Carril’s passing.
Dolores is also believed to be the mother of Pete’s children, Peter Carril and Lisa Carril, whose details are also not in the public domain.
In 29 years as coach of the Princeton Tigers, Carril compiled a 514–261 (.663 winning percentage) record.
He is also the only men’s coach to win 500 games without the benefit of athletic scholarships for his players.
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He won or shared 13 Ivy League championships and received 11 NCAA berths and 2 NIT bids and under his tutelage, The Tigers won the NIT championship in 1975.
Carril’s biggest triumph for Princeton came in 1996, when he led his 13th-seeded Tigers to a win over heavily favored UCLA.
After the epic win, Carril who was beaming with smiles told CBS, “We just knocked off a giant!”
Carril left Princeton after that Cinderella season and spent more than 10 years as an assistant coach in the NBA, primarily with the Sacramento Kings.
Carril was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1998.
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