Jim Harrick
Harrick in 2008
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
July 25, 1938 Charleston, West Virginia |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1963–1969 | Morningside HS (asst.) |
| 1969–1973 | Morningside HS |
| 1973–1977 | Utah State (asst.) |
| 1977–1979 | UCLA (asst.) |
| 1979–1988 | Pepperdine |
| 1988–1996 | UCLA |
| 1997–1999 | Rhode Island |
| 1999–2003 | Georgia |
| 2006–2007 | Bakersfield Jam |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 470–235 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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NCAA Division I Men's Basketball championship (1995) 3× Pac-10 regular season championship (1992, 1995, 1996) 5× WCAC regular season championship (1981–1983, 1985, 1986) Atlantic 10 Tournament championship (1999) |
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| Awards | |
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Naismith College Coach of the Year (1995) Pac-10 Coach of the Year (1995) 4× WCAC Coach of the Year (1982, 1983, 1985, 1986) |
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James Richard "Jim" Harrick (born July 25, 1938) is an American former basketball coach who coached at UCLA, Pepperdine University, the University of Rhode Island and the University of Georgia over a combined total of 23 seasons.
Born in Charleston, West Virginia, Harrick graduated in 1960 from Morris Harvey College, now known as the University of Charleston. He is of Lebanese ancestry. On November 20, 2009 Sally Lee Harrick, his wife of 49 years, died aged 70 from complications of scleroderma.
Harrick's coaching career began at Morningside High School in Inglewood, California where he served as an assistant coach from 1964–1969 and as head coach from 1970–1973. He was then hired as an assistant coach at Utah State from 1974–1977. Harrick then spent two seasons as an assistant coach at UCLA from 1978–1979. His first collegiate head coaching job was at Pepperdine University in 1979, where he led the school to four NCAA Tournament appearances and was a conference coach of the year four times.
In 1988, he returned to UCLA to assume head coaching duties after the firing of Walt Hazzard. During the recruiting period before his first season, he recruited Don MacLean which was the most significant recruit to commit to UCLA in several years and helped start a revival of the basketball program. By 1992, he had the Bruins in the Elite Eight--"officially" the first time they had advanced that far in 13 years (the 1979-80 team went all the way to the national championship game, but had that appearance vacated due to ineligible players) and "officially" the second time they had advanced that far since John Wooden left the school.
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