Hall of Fame coach Charles Grice "Lefty" Driesell has died at the age of 92.
名人堂教練查爾斯·格賴斯·“左撇子”·德里塞爾去世,享年92歲。
The renowned coach, who helped build the University of Maryland’s basketball team into a national powerhouse, died on Saturday morning, according to the university.
據(jù)馬里蘭大學(xué)稱,這位著名的教練于周六上午去世,他曾幫助馬里蘭大學(xué)的籃球隊成為一支全國強隊。
"Driesell was a legend in the sport who left an indelible mark on Maryland basketball and the college basketball community as a whole," the university said in a news release.
“德雷塞爾是體育界的傳奇人物,他在馬里蘭籃球界和整個大學(xué)籃球界留下了不可磨滅的印記,”馬里蘭大學(xué)在一份新聞稿中說。
Damon Evans, the Barry P. Gossett Director of Athletics at Maryland, described Driesell in a statement in the release as "a transcendent figure in college basketball and the man who put Maryland basketball on the map" during his tenure as the team's coach.
馬里蘭大學(xué)巴里·p·戈塞特體育主任達(dá)蒙·埃文斯在新聞稿中的一份聲明中稱,德雷塞爾在擔(dān)任球隊教練期間是“大學(xué)籃球界的杰出人物,是他讓馬里蘭籃球聲名鵲起”。
"A Hall of Famer, Lefty was an innovator, a man who was ahead of his time from his coaching on the court to his marketing off the court," Evans added.
“作為一名名人堂成員,阿左是一位革新者,從場上的指導(dǎo)到場下的營銷,他都走在了時代的前面,”埃文斯補充道。
Driesell, who was born in Norfolk, Va., and played basketball at Duke University, went on to have a stellar coaching career. By the time he retired, he had won 786 games and was the first and only coach to lead four different Division I schools to 100 victories in basketball, according to The Washington Post.
德雷塞爾出生在弗吉尼亞州諾???,曾在杜克大學(xué)打籃球,后來成為了一名出色的教練。據(jù)《華盛頓郵報》報道,到退役時,他已經(jīng)贏了786場比賽,是第一位也是唯一一位帶領(lǐng)四所不同的美國甲級學(xué)校在籃球比賽中取得100場勝利的教練。
His road to success began when he took his first coaching job at Davidson College in North Carolina in 1960. He spent nine years at the school, leading the basketball team to a 176-65 record.
他的成功之路始于1960年他在北卡羅來納州戴維森學(xué)院的第一份教練工作。他在學(xué)校待了九年,帶領(lǐng)籃球隊取得了176勝65負(fù)的戰(zhàn)績。