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Basketball.
Hoops.
Roundball.
Whatever you call it, the object is simple - put the ball through
the hoop. Nothing is more fundamental to the game than shooting,
but shooting is an elusive skill. To be successful, you must
first learn the basics, and for that you need a teacher. Now you
are about to meet the best. The man who
teaches the pros - Herb Magee.
As a five-foot-ten inch, 150-pound
college player, he scored an amazing 2,235 points, leading his
team to 75 victories. Magee was a two-time All-American and
drafted by the Boston Celtics, but chose to pass up the NBA for a
college coaching career.
Now in
his 39th season as head coach at Philadelphia University, Coach
Magee is ranked 8th all-time in NCAA coaching victories with
over
800 wins.
His career includes twenty-one post season tournaments and a NCAA
Division II National Championship.
His exploits as
a coach have not gone unnoticed, as his list of awards and
achievements can attest. The Kodak District Coach of the Year in
1993, Magee was also tabbed New York Collegiate Athletic
Conference Coach of the Year that season and again in 1994. In
addition, he has been honored as regional Coach of the Year four
times, national Coach of the Year twice, and Co-Coach of the Year
in the Mideast Collegiate Conference
twice. He was also inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of
Fame in 1979.
Herb Magee has
coached over 30 1,000-point scorers and 10 All-Americans. For
over thirty years, he has been nationally renowned as a shooting
instructor in demand at basketball camps and clinics and he has
tutored professional ball players from the Pacers, Kings, Nets,
Spurs and 76ers. He has released two popular videotapes/DVDs
entitled, "Nothing But Net" & "Nothing
But Drills".
Magee played
his high school basketball at Philadelphia’s famed West Catholic
High, where his teammates included former Philadelphia 76ers Head
Coach Jim Lynam and former St.
Joseph's coach Jim Boyle. Magee received a Bachelor of Science in
marketing from Philadelphia University in 1963 and a Master's in
Education from St. Joseph's University in 1969. Magee and his
wife, Geri, live in Berwyn, PA. |