My godfather, renowned local high school basketball coach Morgan Wootten, was featured recently in an article in the Washington Post. Morgan coached at DeMatha High School from 1956 until 2002.
Despite amassing a career record of 1,192-274 – the most wins as a head basketball coach at any level – Morgan doesn’t focus on the wins when talking about his players. “People would come to me and they’d say, ‘What kind of year did you have?’” Morgan recalled in the Post article. “I would say, ‘See me in about 15 to 20 years and I’ll tell you what kind of year we had.’” To him, the measure of his success as a coach was not how many games his players won, but how well they turned out and what they did with their lives.
By this measure also Morgan was an incredibly successful head coach – 18 of his players went on to play in the NBA, and he has had former players “go on to become doctors, lawyers, secret service agents and college basketball coaches.”[1] Almost 40 of those former players returned to DeMatha High School this past December to honor their former coach and help inaugurate the school’s new gymnasium.
Read the full article here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/05/AR2010120505061.html
[1] Sandys, Toni L. “DeMatha Bids Farewell to Gym.” The Washington Post, 12-6-2010. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/05/AR2010120505061.html
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