Dave Odom
Odom in Kuwait, 2006
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
October 9, 1942 Goldsboro, North Carolina |
| Playing career | |
| 1961–1965 | Guilford |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1965–1967 | Goldsboro HS (asst.) |
| 1967–1969 | Goldsboro HS |
| 1969–1976 | Durham HS |
| 1976–1979 | Wake Forest (asst.) |
| 1979–1982 | East Carolina |
| 1982–1989 | Virginia (asst.) |
| 1989–2001 | Wake Forest |
| 2001–2008 | South Carolina |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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NIT Tournament Championship (2000, 2005, 2006) ACC Tournament Championship (1995, 1996) ACC Regular Season Championship (1995) |
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| Awards | |
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SEC Coach of the Year (2004) ACC Coach of the Year (1991, 1994, 1995) |
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George David "Dave" Odom (born October 9, 1942) is a retired American men's college basketball coach, who most recently coached at the University of South Carolina. He had previously held the same position at East Carolina University and Wake Forest University, and was an assistant coach at the University of Virginia.
Odom began his career in sports at Goldsboro High School, in North Carolina, as the captain of his basketball and baseball teams. After graduating in 1961, he attended Guilford College where he played quarterback on the football team for three years, as well as playing basketball for all four years. As a senior in 1965, Odom was named the college's most outstanding athlete. He was also inducted into the Guilford College Athletics Hall of Fame in 1983.
After graduation in 1965, Odom accepted a job as the coach of Goldsboro High School while enrolled at East Carolina University in pursuit of a master's degree in physical education. Odom coached Goldsboro High School for four seasons between 1965 and 1969. After graduating from East Carolina in 1969, Odom took a job at Durham High School. He coached at Durham for seven years (1969–1976) where he was voted his league's coach of the year five times.
Odom began his collegiate coaching career as an assistant at Wake Forest University in 1976 under head coach Carl Tacy. After three years at Wake Forest (1976–1979), Odom became the head coach at East Carolina University, where his squad compiled a 16-11 record, the university's best since 1965. Odom stayed with the program until 1982, when he was offered a chance to return to the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) as an assistant at the University of Virginia.
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