Kenny Washington
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Who is Kenny Washington?
Kenneth Washington is a retired American basketball player and coach. As a player, he was a two-time NCAA champion at UCLA and represented the United States in the 1970 FIBA World Championship. He was also the first head coach in UCLA women's basketball history.
Washington, a 6'3 guard out of Robert Smalls High School in Beaufort, South Carolina, played for coach John Wooden at UCLA from 1963 to 1966, where he was a key member of Wooden's first two NCAA championship teams in 1964 and 1965. As the sixth man of those teams, Washington helped the Bruins establish what is now known as a storied tradition. Washington was particularly effective in his two championship appearances, netting 26 points and grabbing 12 rebounds in the final of the 1964 NCAA tournament and scoring 17 in the 1965 championship and earning a spot on the All-Final Four team.
After graduation, Washington was drafted by the San Francisco Warriors in the eighth round of the 1966 NBA Draft, but he never played in the league.
In 1970, Kenny Washington was a member of the United States team that played in the 1970 FIBA Championship in Yugoslavia, finishing fifth.
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