SotV
I have a feeling Iverson's dad won't be able to provide the same lessons as one of the greatest players in the history of college basketball.
Yes, Chuck was not the NCAA POY but he wasn't Ward Cleaver either.
From:
http://www.mtmc.edu/about/news/2008/Iverson.aspx
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verson Promoted to Full Time Athletic Post
Chuck Iverson, head women’s basketball coach at Mount Marty College, has been promoted to the position of full-time athletic director. Previously, he held the dual role of part-time athletic director in addition to coaching. Effective immediately, he will assume the duties and responsibilities of full-time director while a search for a women’s basketball coach commences.
“I’m very honored to accept this position and am anxious to help build the athletic department for the future,” Iverson said. “It was a tough decision to get out of coaching and leave that family of players. It was especially tough to tell the athletes that I would not be their coach next year.”
Iverson’s coaching career has been marked with stellar performances both on and off the court. In his 17 years as head women’s basketball coach, his leadership earned him the Coach of The Year award twice (with the South Dakota Iowa Conference in 1999 and Great Plains Athletic Conference in 2007). Those same years he took his women’s team all the way to the national NAIA basketball tournaments. In 2007, the Mount Marty Women’s Basketball team earned their fourth conference championship under his direction.
Iverson’s drive for excellence off the court helped earn Mount Marty the distinguished GPAC Dr. Myrvin Christopherson All-Academic Award two consecutive years, acknowledging Mount Marty athletes as conference leaders in academic grade point average.
In eight of the past 10 years, the team was rated among the top in the nation in both basketball and academics. In addition, 100 percent of the players who finished eligibility at Mount Marty graduated during coach Iverson’s term.
“We are delighted Chuck has accepted this position and will serve us in the capacity of full-time athletic director,” said Dr. James T. Barry, President of Mount Marty College. “This position is integral to the advancement of Lancer Athletics.”
Mount Marty College is a member of the Great Plains Athletic Conference and a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. “We will be working together to create a strategic plan for our athletic program that will provide a future direction for the enhancement of athletics at Mount Marty,” Dr. Barry said.
A committee has been formed to begin the search for a new basketball coach. The goal is to have a new coach in place shortly, Barry said.
Iverson’s basketball career began in Vermillion, S.D. where he was a stand-out for Vermillion High School as well as the University of South Dakota. He graduated from USD with a bachelor’s degree in education and a master’s degree in health, physical education and recreation.
Drafted by the NBA’s Seattle Supersonics and Memphis of the ABA, he had a taste of professional play before returning to the Midwest as a coach, first at the high school level, and then advancing to the college level with Yankton College and the University of South Dakota as an assistant coach in the 1980s. Later, he led the Redfield High School basketball program just prior to joining Mount Marty College in 1991. In all, he’s coached 27 years of basketball. In his 17 years at Mount Marty, he posted a win-loss record of 252-241.
Iverson and his wife, Karla, live in Yankton and have three children.
