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Author: Dean Smith
February 2002 · Paperback
464 Pages
For almost forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina basketball team with unsurpassed success, having an impact both on the court and in the lives of countless young men.
In A Coach’s Life, he looks back on the great games, teams, players, strategies, and rivalries that defined his career and, in a new final chapter, discusses his retirement from the game. The fundamentals of good basketball are the fundamentals of character — passion, discipline, focus, selflessness, and responsibility — and superlative mentor and coach Dean Smith imparts them all with equal authority.
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| | | Dean Smith was born in Emporia, Kansas, in 1931. At age thirty he became head coach of the University of North Carolina, and in his more than thirty-six years there, he established a peerless record — 879-254, .776 — as the winningest coach in college basketball history.
Smith has won numerous coaching awards, including eight ACC Coach of the Year titles, and was named coach of the 1976 U.S. Olympic team.
He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. | | |
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