Coaching Basketball Successfully

ANNOTATION

Considered by many experts to be the best high school coach, the author of From Orphans to Champions and head basketball coach at DeMatha Catholic High School (with an 88% win record--one of the highest in high school basketball history) shares all the elements of his success, covering every facet of building a successful basketball team. 19 halftones; 175 line drawings.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

In Coaching Basketball Successfully, author Morgan Wootten covers every facet of building a successful basketball team. You'll appreciate the way Coach Wootten takes sophisticated techniques and breaks them down into practical strategies for your program. Featuring over 100 drills and nearly 200 illustrations, this book will help you develop and improve player as well as team performance. But there's more than Xs and Os. You'll also read more than 40 personal anecdotes that highlight the other key aspects of coaching, including philosophy, communication, and motivation.

Coaching Basketball Successfully is a publication of the American Sport Education Program (ACEP), a multilevel, national coaching education program. This book is one of a series of sport-specific texts designed by ACEP. Through this series, ACEP enlists the help of expert coaches like Morgan Wootten to show coaches how philosophy, psychology, teaching methods, and management, as well as Xs and Os, can be applied successfully to their sports.

About the Author:

Morgan Wootten has been the head basketball coach at DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, MD, since 1956. His 88% win record is one of the highest in high school basketball history. Another great achievement is the fact that since 1960 every graduating player has been offered an athletic or academic scholarship. Many of his former players have gone on to play in the National Basketball Association. Wootten is also a developer of future coaches--seven of his former assistants have gone on to become Division I head coaches.

In 1991, Wootten received the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame's most prestigious single honor, the John W. Bunn Award, for his contributions to basketball and sport in general. He was selected as the top 1990 teacher-coach of all sports in America by the Disney Television Channel. During his coaching career, Wootten has been named National Coach of the Year 5 times and Washington, DC, Area Coach of the Year more than 20 times. He is a charter member of The Washington Metro Basketball Hall of Fame. Wootten has also served as chairman of the Selection Committee for the McDonald's High School All-American Basketball Team.

During the off-season, Wootten runs his own camp and speaks at basketball clinics and seminars worldwide. He has also written five books and produced three instructional tapes. He and his wife, Kathy, reside in Hyattsville, MD. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, golfing, and traveling.

FROM THE CRITICS

USA Today

. . . A basketball textbook you'd want to memorize. Coaching Basketball Successfully is organized and brilliant. Wootten is a tireless, constantly upbeat teacher who shares motivational and historical anecdotes. His little stories keep you reading . . . and set up lessons on every aspect of coaching. . . . A vital tool.

Scholastic Coach

Probably the most comprehensive and purest coaching textbook on high school basketball ever written; this marvelously detailed book tells you exactly how to organize and teach/coach every facet of the game. . . . The thoroughness, clarity, and pure authority of the technical writing are impeccable.

Athletics Administration