Jack Hirsch
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Van Nuys (Van Nuys, California) |
| College |
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| NBA draft | 1964 / Undrafted |
| Position | Forward |
| Number | 50 |
| Career history | |
| As coach: | |
| 1980–1982 | Compton College (asst) |
| 1982–1984 | Chapman College (asst) |
| 1984–1988 | UCLA (asst) |
| Career highlights and awards | |
Jack Hirsch (born c. 1941) is a former college basketball player for the UCLA Bruins. He was the starting forward on the Bruins' national championship team in 1964, when he served as co-captain along with Walt Hazzard. Hirsch also earned all-conference honors that season. He later became an assistant coach in college, and served as the top assistant to Hazzard. Hazzard and Hirsch coached at UCLA from 1984 to 1988. Hirsch was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012.
Hirsch grew up in Brooklyn in an affluent Jewish family. His father ran a successful chain of bowling alleys. Hirsch attended a school of predominantly black students, and he played basketball on the asphalt courts of the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood. His family moved to the Los Angeles district of Van Nuys when he was 14. In his senior year at Van Nuys High School, the 6-foot-3-inch (1.91 m) center won All-City Co-Player of the Year honors.
After high school, Hirsch attended junior college at Los Angeles Valley College for two years from 1959 to 1961, where he was a two-time All-Metropolitan Conference player. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as a favor to his father, who promised to quit his five-packs-a-day smoking habit.
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