Phil Woolpert
Phil Woolpert (* December 15, 1915 in Danville, Kentucky, USA, † May 7, 1987 in Sequim, Washington, United States) was the coach of the basketball teams of the University of San Francisco and the University of San Diego.
Biography
Phil Woolpert was 15 years old at the Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles. In 1933 he moved to the Los Angeles Junior College. He remained there for the next three years, until he at the Loyola Marymount University went there and received his degree.
In 1946, Phil Woolpert coach a basketball team at the High School St. Ignatius College Preparatory in San Francisco, California. In his four -year stint as a coach he could have with his basketball team, a successful record of 63 wins and 23 defeats.
Peter Newell, a former basketball coach and Hall of Famer who coached from 1946 to 1950, the basketball team at the University of San Francisco. When he with the " Dons ", the National Invitation Tournament championships won in 1949, he handed over his position as coach and Athletic Director at Phil Woolpert. Both were classmates at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Phil Woolpert coached the " Dons " from 1951 to 1959 at this time., He could show his team a 153-78 record and basketball legends like Bill Russell KC Jones or produce. In 1955, the Dons won the NCAA championships with 76-73 against La Salle University ( Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Thus Phil Woolpert was the youngest coach (at that time 40 years old), who won the NCAA Championships with his team. The following year they again won the NCAA championships with 83-71 against the University of Iowa.
During the tenure of Phil Woolpert at the University of San Francisco ( USF ) USF basketball team could win 60 games in succession. This record was (UCLA ) in 1988, surpassed only by John Wooden, the head coach of the basketball team of the University of California, Los Angeles with 88 victorious games.
In 1961, he coached the San Francisco Saints, a basketball team consisting of Sino - Americans in the American Basketball League. A year later he left the San Francisco Saints and was coach and Athletic Director of the basketball team of the University of San Diego ( USD). In 1972 he left the USD team and moved to Sequim in Washington.
On 11 May 1992 Phil Woolpert was recorded as a coach in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Awards
- Coach of the Year (1955, 1956)
- Pacific Coach of the Year (1957, 1958)