Overtime Kids: The Untold Story of a Small-Town Kentucky Basketball Team's Unlikely Rise to the State Championship

by Don Miller

Overview

Overtime Kids is an inspiring account of the smallest school to ever win the Kentucky State High School Basketball Championship, knocking out the highest scoring player in history in the process! Discover with Dr. Don Miller how this humble coal-mining town produced some of the state's most determined players ever and the tremendous lifelong principles that guided them to the championship and beyond. This story of the Carr Creek High 1956 Kentucky State Champions is truly an inspiration to students and sports fans everywhere.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596528222
Publisher:	Turner Publishing Company
Publication date:	06/22/2011
Pages:	205
Sales rank:	1,123,909
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Don Miller graduated from Carr Creek High School in 1948, where he was all-state in basketball the same year. Don received an A.B. and M.A. from Morehead State College (now University). After coaching and teaching in high schools for three years, he taught at Pfeiffer College, Misenheimer, NC, and Asbury College, Wilmore, KY, before completing the doctorate of education from Indiana Universityin 1972. Don retired as head Professor of Education after teaching thirty years at Morehead State University. He resides in Lexington, Kentucky.

Editorial Reviews

Don Miller isn’t simply the best person to tell the Carr Creek story. He’s the only one.” —Joe B. Hall, former head coach for the University of Kentucky

“The 1956 basketball state champions—Carr Creek High—builds upon a tradition that was started with the team of 1928. When you read about what they accomplished . . . it shall make all Kentuckians proud.” —Brereton Jones, former Governor of Kentucky

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