Coach John Thompson has been far more than a basketball coach at North Carolina Wesleyan — he's been a teacher, mentor and ...

Danielle Burnett and Jeffrey Burnett College, major: Purdue University, materials engineering and kinesiology Lachlan Demmer Parents: Wade Demmer and Stacee Demmer College, major: University of ...

My father always said, ‘Son, study the white man,’” writes John Thompson Jr ... on being the first Black coach to win an N.C.A.A. championship, as well as his high-profile protests against ...

As a Black youth growing up in segregated Washington, D.C., John Thompson was accustomed to sitting in the back of his Catholic church behind white ... coach at St. Anthony's, a tiny high school ...

What if John Thompson ... two years in the NBA, Thompson returned to his hometown, taking a job at St. Anthony’s High School. In 1972, he was hired as the basketball coach at Georgetown, which ...

That’s when the Legend of John Thompson — the basketball coach who got in the face ... scholarships to attend a predominantly white Catholic high school in Washington and later Providence ...

During games, Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson slung a white towel over his shoulder ... “Over the twelve years since I had graduated from high school, Georgetown went from not ...

“I’m six feet 10 inches tall,” longtime Georgetown basketball coach John ... in high school and in college, at Providence. Red Auerbach, the longtime Boston Celtics coach, recruited Thompson ...

With a white towel constantly draped around his shoulders and his metal-framed glasses, the 6-foot-10 John ... High School boys basketball team, who witnessed the dominance of Thompson not as a ...

St. Anthony's High, with approximately 250 students at the time, was small in comparison to some of Washington, D.C.'s bigger Catholic schools it played in basketball. Yet St. Anthony's had one ...

Lee: John Thompson was a towering figure in many ways. He stood 6'10" tall and was a champion as a high school ... White kids were scared to come to Georgetown because of the false perception of ...