Synopsis

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.

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.

Biography

Morgan Wootten compiled a remarkable 1,274-192 (.869) record in his 46-year career at DeMatha High School in Hyattsville, Maryland. Under Wootten, DeMatha won legendary national championships in 1962, 1965, 1968, and 1984. In 1984, USA Today named Wootten the National Coach of the Year. His teams recorded 44 consecutive seasons with at least 20 wins and won 33 Catholic League championships. Most impressive, DeMatha has finished the season ranked number 1 in the Washington, DC, area 20 times in the last 33 years.

Wooten first put DeMatha on the national map of high school basketball in 1965 when his team broke the 71-game winning streak of Lew Alcindor's Power Memorial (New York) club. More than 160 of Wootten's former players have played college basketball, and a dozen have played in the NBA, including Adrian Dantley and Danny Ferry. More than 20 of his former coaches or players are now coaching on the high school, collegiate, or professional level. Wootten was inducted into the Naismith National Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000. He retired in November 2002.

Wootten is regarded as one of the best teachers in the history of the game. Coaches throughout the world have read his books, watched his videotapes, and sat spellbound through his clinics for many years. He and his wife, Kathy, reside in Hyattsville. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, golfing, and traveling.