MORGAN
WOOTTEN ‘52
Inducted 1989
‘Mr. High School Basketball,’ Coach
Wootten has led his DeMatha High School Stags to a number one ranking in the Washington
area for 20 of the last 32 years. He has a lifetime record of 903 wins, 127 losses and
numerous national high school championships, where he has demonstrated to the entire
nation that to become the best, you have to beat the best. Since 1957, all of Coach
Wootten’s seniors have been awarded full college scholarships. "I know of no
finer coach -- high school, college or pro," says John Wooden, former coach UCLA.
"I stand in awe of him."
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author of three books, has hosted television and radio shows in Washington and conducted
numerous clinics across the country. He is a charter member of the DC Basketball Hall of
Fame and has been nominated for the National Basketball Hall of Fame. His overnight summer
basketball camp for boys and girls held at Mount St. Mary’s in Emmitsburg, Maryland
has become one of the most popular in the country.
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