Duke University Basketball - Coach K - Bio

Born Michael Krzyzewski, a respected coach and son of Polish immigrants passionately nicknamed Coach K for decades. While even casual basketball fans know Coach K as a longtime successful coach at Duke University Blue Devils a much smaller portion of the population understands that Coach K has raced and molded from an early age to live an impactful life that has positively affected thousands of people.
ended U.S. military academy West Point Chicago native has a pedigree of the man who knows the intrinsic value of the liability. With full-time responsibilities that have been involved in training to become an officer in the Army, at West Point, Mike Krzyzewski has spent a significant amount of their time on playing hard for the young Bob Knight, who happened to Coach Krzyzewski during his limit in the military. Bob Knight would go on to become a legendary coach at Indiana University and eventually secured a position holds the record for most wins all time.
After having served as an Army basketball team captain during his senior season, Mike spent five years after his 1969 graduation fulfill their obligations to their country by serving in the military. call to lead and positively influence the lives of young people is a coach K Bloomington, Indiana where he dutifully served as an assistant coach and was a re with his former college coach Bobby Knight. By 1975 when Knight and Coach K, the same court again (this time at Indiana) Knight has established itself as a premier coach on the national stage. team that Knight sent to the court during the 1974-1975 season and 1975-1976 season went a collective 63-1 in unfathomable 98.4 winning percentage.
After only one year of successful tutelage of Bob Knight at Indiana, Coach K has accepted the position of his first college head coach who just happened to be at his old stomping grounds at West Point, New York. Fri successful seasons in the military is all that is needed to earn the opportunity to take the Duke basketball program in 1980 that consistently competes in the toughest basketball conference in the country, the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC ).

In addition to his role in coaching the Olympic gold medal winning basketball team coach K is known worldwide for business model has done in his nearly thirty seasons as head basketball coach at Duke University. His success at Duke is so amazing that a laundry list of accomplishments is almost beyond the scope of this article. Some of the very many highlights include: 24 NCAA Tournament appearances in the last 25 years, 11 conference championships in the highly competitive ACC, 10 Final Four appearances, three national championships, numerous coach of the year award, a 2001 induction into Basketball Hall of Fame.
Regardless of ones feelings about Duke University seems unarguable to say that Coach K is a tremendously qualified to implant an impressive young man with discipline, leadership, and character. The success enjoyed by Coach K and his impressive personal resume to make one of the most respected people not only in basketball history, but in all sports.