Morgan Wootten Announcement
I’m very excited today. I got a phone call from one of the most respected coaches in the history of basketball and I get to do an interview with him. I know that some of my audience hasn’t heard of Coach Wootten so I put together a bit of his resume.
•Enshrined in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, Class of 2000
•Received Naismith Award as the outstanding male prep coach of the twentieth century
•With almost 1,300 wins and a winning percentage of 87%, he is considered to he the winningest coach in basketball history
•Has helped over 250 student-athletes receive a full college scholarship
•Teams have been selected national champs five times. won over 100 major titles, and been voted #1 in the Washing-ton. DC area 23 times
•National Coach of the Year four times and Coach of the Year in the Washington, DC area ten different years
•1991 recipient of the John W. Bunn Award presented by the. Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
•Initial recipient of the Disney Award as the top sports coach in all of the United States
•Chairman of the selection committee to pick the McDonald’s All-American team
•Heavily in demand as a clinician and teacher, he has spoken on five continents, in numerous foreign countries as well as most states in the USA.
Here’s a list of the ‘notable’ players he has coached:
John Austin
Keith Bogans
Adrian Branch
Mike Brey
James Brown
Kenny Carr
Sid Catlett
Perry Clark
Adrian Dantley
Ron Everhart
Danny Ferry
Joseph Forte
John Jones
Joe Kennedy
Sidney Lowe
Brendan McCarthy
Jerrod Mustaf
Heath Schroyer
Pete Strickland
Brian Westbrook
Charles “Hawkeye” Whitney
Dereck Whittenburg
Bernie Williams
Now you can see why I’m just a little excited to be interviewing Coach Wootten. When I was growing up and playing high school ball his teams were always the epitome of teamwork and winning. He has won 87% of every game he ever coached and nobody is going to reach that.
I’ll be conducting the interview next week sometime and it will be available at www.hoopskillsacademy.com
