John Wooden biography
John Wooden, in full John Robert Wooden, byname Wizard of Westwood, (born October 14, 1910, Hall, Indiana, U.S.—died June 4, 2010, Los Angeles, California), American basketball coach who directed groups of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) to 10 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championships in 12 seasons (1964–65, 1967–73, 1975). Several of his UCLA gamers turned skilled basketball stars, notably Lew Alcindor (afterward Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), Bill Walton, and Gail Goodrich.
At Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, Wooden, a guard, gained All-America honours as a basketball participant for 3 seasons (1930–32) and gained a Western Conference (Big Ten) medal for athletic and scholastic excellence. He coached highschool basketball in Kentucky and Indiana earlier than getting into the U.S. Navy in 1943. After World War II, through which he served as a bodily schooling teacher, he was head basketball coach and athletic director at Indiana State Teachers’ College (now Indiana State University) in Terre Haute from 1946 to 1948. He was appointed head coach at UCLA in 1948 and retired in 1975, with a document of 620 wins and 147 losses, for an .808 proportion. His 40-year document was 885 wins and 203 losses, a proportion of .813. Among Wooden’s most notable accomplishments at UCLA are two record-winning streaks: 88 consecutive video games (over the course of 4 seasons) and 38 consecutive NCAA match video games. He was named the NCAA’s College Basketball Coach of the Year on six events (1964, 1967, 1969–70, 1972–73). Wooden was the primary particular person to be elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as each a participant and a coach. The John R. Wooden Award yearly honours the nation’s excellent participant as chosen by a media ballot.
Wooden, with Steve Jamison, wrote two books on classes from his expertise as a coach: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and off the Court (1997) and Wooden on Leadership (2005).