Roy williams early life
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Roy Williams (basketball coach)
American basketball player and coach (born 1950)
Williams in 2008 | |
Born | (1950-08-01) August 1, 1950 (age 74) Marion, North Carolina, U.S. |
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Alma mater | North Carolina ('72) |
1968–1969 | North Carolina (J.V.) |
1973–1978 | Charles D. Owen HS |
1978–1988 | North Carolina (assistant) |
1988–2003 | Kansas |
2003–2021 | North Carolina |
Overall | 903–264 (.774) |
Tournaments | 79–27 (NCAA Division I) 4–1 (NIT) |
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Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2007 (profile) | |
College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2006 | |
Roy Allen Williams[1] (born August 1, 1950) is an American retired college basketball coach who served as the men's head coach for the North Carolina Tar Heels for 18 seasons and the Kansas Jayhawks for 15 seasons. He was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of
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HOME AT LAST AFTER A CHILDHOOD IN WHICH WARM FAMILY SCENES WERE ALL TOO RARE, ROY WILLIAMS HAS FOUND IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE COACHING TOP-RANKED KANSAS
Roy Williams, the coach of Kansas, can still close his eyes and
see his mother, her raven-black hair pulled back, standing at
the stove with her apron on, cooking biscuits and milk gravy and
sausages. Or canning green beans and tomatoes for winter meals.
Or standing over an ironing board with piles of other folks'
clothes at her feet. He doesn't remember her ever taking a
vacation. As a mother of two--Roy and his older sister,
Frances--and as the ex-wife of an alcoholic whose life had spun
out of control, Lallage Williams had all she could do to provide
for her family.
Hers had become a mean, hardscrabble existence, and it pained
Frances and Roy to watch her struggle. Lallage, known to her
family as Mimmie, had grown up picking cotton east of Asheville,
N.C., and later worked in factories most of her life, including
25 years as an inspector at the Vanderbilt shirt factory. But
after her marriage collapsed and the family income dwindled, she
had to take on part-time work as a maid and a laundress to make
ends meet.
"For several years there, I really felt my mom had to battle
every day to make things go, so that on Friday she co
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Biography
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