Clyde Vaughan

Clive Holland " Clyde " Vaughan ( born January 30, 1962 in London, England ) is a former American- English basketball player. Born in the United Kingdom as Clive Vaughan, in 1972 he moved with his mother to the United States, where he also studied and was known to everyone only Clyde. He then worked as a professional in the British Basketball League (BBL ) in the 1989/90 season as the "Most Valuable Player " (MVP). After a back surgery he ended his active career in 1991 and became a coach. As a result, he was until 2004 assistant coach at the high school teams in the NCAA Division I. After winning the NCAA Men 's Division I Basketball Championship with the UConn Huskies under head coach Jim Calhoun Vaughan had in 2004 to leave his post because of an indictment in a criminal case.

Career

Vaughan was born in England in 1972 with his mother and five siblings to Mount Vernon (New York) in the United States (USA) pulled. In his senior year in high school in New Rochelle Vaughan was voted the second best basketball players in his age group in New York State. Then he went in 1980 to study at the University of Pittsburgh in the same town in the neighboring state of Pennsylvania, where he was first in the former Eastern played with the high school team, Panthers 8 Conference of the NCAA. The Panthers won the championship twice this Conference, where Vaughan was appointed as a " sophomore " the MVP of the championship tournament in 1982. In the national NCAA championship final in 1981 managed a tight first round victory after extra time, which, however, the resignation was followed in the next round against the eventual finalists Tar Heels of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The crew of the Tar Heels were members of well-known players like James Worthy, Sam Perkins and the " freshman " Michael Jordan, the successful careers in the professional league NBA should all have. After a first round defeat in the final of 1982, the Panthers left the Eastern 8 and changed in the game stronger Big East Conference, where, however, no more championships won and were not invited to the final round. Nevertheless, Vaughan belonged here with over 20 points and nearly ten rebounds per game to the best players in the Big East, in many later played NBA pros like Patrick Ewing. At the end of his college career Vaughan had over 2,000 points in total, which he was the first player in the history of the Panthers, who had this " sound barrier" surpassed in his college career, and achieved over 900 rebounds.

After graduating in 1984 Vaughan was selected to 117th position from the Indiana Pacers still only at the beginning of the sixth round in the NBA Draft, but did not adopt him after the season squad. Vaughan returned to his native country, where he played as a professional in the " National Basketball League " ( NBL ). There he was one of the dominant players and was repeatedly " scorer " in the top domestic league championship. Was founded in 1987 from the ranks of Division One of the Scottish team MIM Livingston NBL and the British Basketball League (BBL ). With the City of Leicester Riders Vaughan missed in the first season with balanced record this season in ninth place because of the poorer direct comparison of a place in the play-offs, the best eight teams. Then it moved in front of Vaughan to play in the summer of 1988 in the "World Basketball League " in the United States for players with a height of less than 1.96 m, rather than participating with the British Olympic team in the qualifying tournament for the 1988 Olympics. The British Olympic team had previously never been able to qualify for an Olympic tournament, if it also hosts were not as in 1948, and failed, as it was expected, this time without Vaughan in qualifying, even if the final round of the last eight teams the qualifying tournament reached.

Vaughan, who completed 27 missions for the England national team during his active career, returned in the fall of 1988 back in the BBL and played in the sequence for the 76ers from Sunderland in the North East of England. The 76ers reached with a positive record this season for the first time the play-offs where they were eliminated in the first round. Vaughan has now for the first time leading scorer in the BBL with over 28 points per game. In the 1989/90 season the Kingston Kings dominated the BBL and won all the titles in the closed professional league, which had shrunk from 15 teams in the first season by retreats to eight teams. In the cup competition National Cup and in the play- offs the 76ers covered with topscorer, and BBL MVP Vaughan in the finals, however, where they lost to the Kings. In the following season 1990/91, the 76ers were renamed as Saints and were able to defeat in the Cup semi-final defending champion Kings and make the first title success since the founding of BBL in the final against Vaughan's former team City Riders. As the second -placed team in the regular season, the Saints moved again in the final game of the play-offs, in which one but this time defending champions Kingston Kings clearly defeated with over 20 points. Then finished Vaughan after back surgery his career as a player in the BBL, in which it is conducted with over 28 points per game as a second-best average points scorer ever.

After end of his career as a player Vaughan returned to the U.S., where he was inducted into the coaching staff of the 49ers basketball team from California State University, Long Beach in 1992. There he rose in 1997 to the " Associate Head Coach" of the 49ers, 1999 he left the university and moved to the University of South Florida. After three years as assistant coach of the college team Bulls Vaughan moved to the same position back to the North East to the University of Connecticut, the Huskies basketball team are among the most prestigious and most ambitious basketball teams Division I NCAA. There he worked under head coach Jim Calhoun, who was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005. 2004 won the Huskies among others, Emeka Okafor and Ben Gordon, who grew up in London as Vaughan born in Mount Vernon, the NCAA championship. However, in the summer of 2004, Vaughan was arrested for breach of the laws for the prevention of prostitution. After two more incidents on record in connection with the second husband Vaughan, who has a son appeared, Vaughan said the resignation from his post as assistant coach. Vaughan was in consequence no comparable post more.