After graduation, Smith served as assistant coach at Kansas in the 1953–54 season. [11] Smith was commissioned as a second lieutenant on June 7, 1954, in the U.S. Air Force and was stationed at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base in Germany where he was on a team that won the Air Force championship for Europe. [12] .

Feb 22, 2015 · Carolina Basketball Coach Roy Williams points to the sky in memory of Coach Dean Smith during Sunday’s celebration of Smith’s life. “Let’s raise our hands and point and thank him for the assist,” Williams said.

Feb 23, 2015 · In perhaps the most touching tribute of several that had men's voices breaking with emotion, current Tar Heels basketball coach Roy Williams – who was an assistant coach under Smith -- lamented that he never told his mentor and friend how much he loved him. “I never really told him what he meant to me,” he said.

Feb 8, 2015 · Dean Smith, the Kansas-born coach who used fundamentals and team-first dictates to lead the University of North Carolina men’s basketball team to significant and sustained success, died...

Feb 22, 2015 · About 10,000 people came to the Dean E. Smith Center on Sunday on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill, where the university hosted a public memorial service in celebration of Smith, the longtime...

Feb 8, 2015 · He was an assistant basketball coach at the Air Force Academy, and also the baseball and golf coach for a year, before leaving in 1958 to join Frank McGuire's staff at North Carolina.

Feb 8, 2015 · Dean Smith, the Hall of Fame innovator who won two national championships at North Carolina along with an Olympic gold medal while coaching some of the game's biggest names like Michael Jordan, has died.

Coach Smith offers us some proven and highly effective notions about teamwork. Along with listing Smith’s innovations, I’ve included a few of my ideas on how these apply in the workplace. By all means, add your own.

Oct 9, 2022 · North Carolina’s legendary men’s basketball coach Dean Smith tasked his longtime administrative assistant Linda Woods to gather the coaching staff into his office. It was time to let them...

Feb 23, 2015 · About 10,000 people came to the Smith Center on Feb. 22, and thousands more watched on TV and online, as Carolina said goodbye to Dean Smith in a UNC-sponsored tribute presided over by Chancellor Carol L. Folt.

Feb 8, 2015 · Smith was an assistant coach at North Carolina when head coach Frank McGuire resigned in 1961 to become coach of the NBA's Philadelphia Warriors. UNC tapped Smith to be the new head coach. He...

Feb 9, 2015 · Roy Williams, the current Tar Heels coach and Smith’s assistant for 10 years, said his mentor was the “greatest there ever was on the court but far, far better off the court with people.”

Feb 24, 2025 · Smith was a reserve guard on the Kansas team that won the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) title in 1952. He served briefly as an assistant coach on Allen’s staff before joining the U.S. Air Force in 1954.

Jun 23, 2017 · Smith served as an assistant under McGuire for three years before McGuire resigned to become head coach of the NBA's Philadelphia Warriors in the summer of 1961. At that time, Carolina Chancellor William Aycock tapped the …

Feb 10, 2015 · Legendary North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith died Saturday at age 83. Tributes have poured in acknowledging his two national championships, 95 percent graduation rate, and the enduring loyalty between coach and players across the decades.

Feb 8, 2015 · Dean Smith, the coaching innovator who won two national championships at North Carolina, an Olympic gold medal in 1976 and induction into basketball's Hall of Fame more than a decade before he...

In 1958, Smith was hired by North Carolina coach McGuire to serve as an assistant coach. He worked at that position for three years and when McGuire was forced to resign, Smith became the head coach of the team.

Assistant coach at the University of North Carolina: 1958-1961 Head coach of the University of North Carolina: 1961-1997 Head coach of the U.S.A. National Team in the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games

Feb 10, 2015 · Dean Smith, former head coach of men’s basketball at the University of North Carolina, has died at age 83. He led his team to two national championships and earned a place in the Hall of...

Feb 8, 2015 · He was an assistant basketball coach at the Air Force Academy, and also the baseball and golf coach for a year, before leaving in 1958 to join Frank McGuire's staff at North Carolina.