11/2/11 – Mike Krzyzewski, Croasdaile Country Club, 12:00
The guest speaker for our upcoming meeting will be Mike Krzyzewski, the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Duke and Head Coach for USA Basketball. Krzyzewski has led the Duke to four NCAA Championships, 11 Final Fours (tied for second most in history), 12 ACC regular season titles, and 13 ACC championships over 30 seasons at Duke. He has an NCAA-record 79 NCAA tournament victories, while averaging more than 25 wins per season. Krzyzewski has 900 total career victories, making him the most winning active coach, and putting him just three wins away from being the most winning men’s basketball coach in NCAA Division I history.
Krzyzewski has been the head coach of several USA men’s national teams, winning a silver medal at the 1987 World University Games, a bronze medal at the 1990 FIBA World Championship, a silver medal at the 1990 Goodwill Games, a bronze medal at the 2006 FIBA World Championship, and gold medals at the 2007 FIBA Americas Championship, the 2010 FIBA World Championship, and 2008 Summer Olympics. He was also an assistant coach to the USA teams which won gold medals at the 1984 and 1992 Olympics, the 1979 Pan American Games and the 1992 Tournament of the Americas. In 2005, he was appointed coach of the national team through the Beijing Olympics. On August 24, 2008, Krzyzewski’s U.S. team won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. “The Redeem Team” finished the tournament with a perfect 8–0 record.
Despite initially only being appointed for four years, Krzyzewski agreed to lead the U.S. through another Olympic cycle. He coached the U.S. team for the 2010 FIBA World Championship and led Team USA to a perfect 8-0 record, defeating host Turkey in the gold medal game, 81-64.
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Russell Blunt “Be A Good Sport” Award Winner Receives National Recognition!
Jenna Huff, recipient of the Durham Sports Club’s “Russell Blunt ‘Be A Good Sport’ Award,” was recently recognized by the United State Olympic Committee for her actions in a cross-country meet earlier this year:
“COLORADO SPRINGS– An event that occurred during last year’s North
Carolina High School Athletic Association regional cross country meet
has attracted the attention of the United State Olympic Committee.
Jenna Huff of North Stanly High School, for her act of
sportsmanship in last year’s meet, was named the winner of the NCHSAA
Spirit of Sport award last year and was recognized at the Association’s
Annual Meeting in May. Now she has been recognized by the USOC,
according to the Charlotte Observer.
Huff, now a junior, received a national sportsmanship award
in Colorado Springs known as named the Jack Kelly Fair Play, named after
a former USOC president and Olympic rowing bronze medalist. The award
has had previous winners like cycling’s Lance Armstrong and track’s
Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
As reported in the NCHSAA Bulletin last year, Jenna was
running for North Stanly at Dan Nicholas Park in the 2-A Midwest
Regional for the right to advance to the state championship. Late in the
race she is in 22nd place, trailing Deb Gunther of Cuthbertson by about
five meters. Suddenly Gunther screams in pain and grabs her hip, almost
stopping.
Instead of sprinting past Gunther to gain a spot in the
standings, Huff slowed down, checked on her and tells her, “Come on,”
gently putting her hand on Gunther’s elbow.
They shuffled along toward the finish line, and as North
Stanly cross country coach Drew Laucher said, “As they approach the
finish line, the crowd catches on. Applause and cheers erupt. Jenna puts
Deb in front of her, just as it would have been before Deb’s hip gave
out. Jenna didn’t take that point; it was always Deb’s so it stayed
Deb’s.
That in itself is remarkable, but it also had an impact on the meet. It
turned out that Cuthbertson and Salisbury tied for first in the regional
meet, and ties in cross country means that the performance of the
sixth-place finisher is used. Cuthbertson’s sixth-place runner: Deb
Gunther.
Gunther is now a freshman at Emmanuel College in Franklin Springs, GA.
Huff is continuing to participate in several sports at North Stanly.
Scott Fowler of the Charlotte Observer nominated Jenna for the national
honor.”
Click here to see pictures of Jenna as she helps Deb to the finish line.
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Mark Your Calendar
11/12/11 – Special Event, North Carolina Central University vs. Florida A&M University
11/16/11 – Hugo Germino Award
12/7/11 – Charles Clotfelter, Author, Big-Time Sports in American Universities