Fred Overton

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Name = Fred Overton
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OverallRecord = 44-59
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CoachYears = 1963-1969
1969-1971
1971-1974
1974-1978
CoachTeams = Austin Peay (Asst.)
Pepperdine (Asst.)
Murray State (Asst.)
Murray State

Fred Overton, Jr. is a former head basketball coach at Murray State University and currently a nation-wide motivational speaker. He is a former student of Charles Stanley's Luther Rice Seminary. [http://www.fredovertonseminars.com/fred/index.asp]

Basketball

Overton began his coaching career as an assistant at Austin Peay in 1963. In 1969, he moved cross country to coach at Pepperdine [http://www.newspaperarchive.com/newspapers1/na0024/4202646/18078042.html] . He retuned to the Ohio Valley Conference to serve as as assistant to Cal Luther at Murray State. In 1974 he was elevated to the head coaching position. [http://www.newspaperarchive.com/newspapers1/na0033/6768919/24965977.html] In four seasons at Murray State his overall record was 44-59 [http://racerhistory.com/index.htm]

Religion

In 1980, Overton was saved under the preaching of Charles Stanley . During the 80's, he was in full-time secular sales work, taught adult Sunday School at First Baptist Atlanta and attended Luther Rice Seminary by correspondence. In September 1991, Fred was called into full-time Christian work teaching his seminar "Is the Bible Reliable?". Since then he has developed additional five seminars. His teaching ministry is now nation-wide. [http://www.fredovertonseminars.com/fred/index.asp]