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Val Ackerman, Leonard Hamilton, Speedy Morris and Rick Byrd are the recipients of this year’s Joe Lapchik Character Award.
Ackerman helped found the WNBA and served as the first President. He has had a successful career as commissioner of the Big East Conference since 2013, the conference reborn following the decision of basketball schools to separate from the original conference.
Hamilton is the most winning coach Florida State Basketball The fifth all-time in the history and history of the Atlantic Coast Conference. He scored 394 victories in his 20 years in school and 594 overall in a 34-year career that included stops at Oklahoma State and Miami before moving to the Seminoles in 2002.
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Morris guided La Salle from 1986-2001 to 238 wins and four NCAA Tournament appearances. In the 1989–90 season, his team was 30–2 ahead and finished 12th behind Lionel Simmons and Doug Overton in an AP poll. Morris was the first Division I coach to coach both the men’s and women’s basketball programs at the same school.
Val Ackerman is one of four recipients of this year’s Joe Lapchik Character Award.
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Bird spent 33 years coaching at Belmont from 1986-2019. He won 713 games there and won 805 matches in total. The Bruins went 27–6 in their final season and made the NCAA Tournament. made by belmont eight NCAA appearances During Bird’s tenure
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This is the 14th year the award will be presented to individuals who have shown character traits of Lapchik, who coached with St. John’s and the New York Knicks.
The quartet will be honored at a luncheon in New York on September 16.