Tommy Amaker
Coach, Basketball Coach
1965 –
Who is Tommy Amaker?
Harold Tommy Amaker is an American NCAA Division I college basketball coach and the current head coach of the Harvard University men's basketball team. He has also coached for the University of Michigan and Seton Hall University. He played point guard and later served as an assistant coach at Duke University under Mike Krzyzewski. An All-American player, Amaker set numerous records and earned many honors and awards. He took Seton Hall to the post season in each of his four seasons as their coach, helped Michigan win the National Invitation Tournament the year after a probationary ban from postseason play, and had the three highest single-season win totals in the history of Harvard basketball, the school's first three Ivy League championships and first NCAA tournament victory.
Amaker was a high school basketball McDonald's All-American and a Parade All-American. As a college basketball player, he set most of the assists records and many steals records for Duke basketball. He also set the Atlantic Coast Conference single-season games played and games started records. Among his numerous accolades, he was the first winner of the NABC Defensive Player of the Year, and he was a third team All-American.
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- Born
- Jun 6, 1965
Falls Church - Also known as
- Harold Tommy Amaker
- Parents
- Spouses
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Duke University
- Fuqua School of Business
- Lived in
- Virginia
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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