Pruitt graduated from Plainview High School in 1975 where he excelled in football and basketball. Dale played one year of basketball at Northeast Alabama Community College. He later transferred to Jacksonville State University graduating in 1979. He would later receive his Masters degree from Jacksonville State University. Coach Pruitt began his coaching career at Boaz High School as an assistant football coach. Pruitt next began his forty-year run as a head football coach at Pisgah High School with additional head coaching stops at Plainview High School, Fort Payne High School, Albertville High School, Dade County High School, and two stops at Marion County. Coach Pruitt’s teams have appeared in the post-season twenty-nine times and accumulated 307 wins. He and his wife Melissa have three children and ten grandchildren.
