student success statement

"What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player."

JOHN WOODEN

 

John Wooden

Basketball player

John Robert Wooden was an American basketball player and coach. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood," as head coach at UCLA he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period, including an unprecedentedWithin this period, his teams won a men's basketball-record 88 consecutive games. Wooden's streak of seven consecutive NCAA Championships is even more remarkable and impressive because to this day no other coach or school has won the tournament more than two consecutive years.
Wooden was named national coach of the year six times.