Hello my pin name is Jim Valvano. I chose the name Jim Valvano as my pin name because he was one of the best college basketball coaches of his time. He stared his career at Bucknell University where he took the team to a 33-42 recored in just three seasons. He then went to Iona and coached for five seasons and had a record of 95-46. The last college he coached at was North Carolina State. He was their coach for 10 seasons and during that time his teams went to the NCAA tourament 9 times which included a National Championship in 1983. When he finally stopped caoching in 1990 his official NCAA record was 346-206 W-L. Before he died, on April 28, 1993 he receiveed the very first Arthur Ashe Courage Award given out at the ESPY. One of the most memorable speaches in sports history Jimmy V said: “If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck
of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something
special.
“Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.”
