- Dale Gibson
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Dale Gibson Sport(s) Basketball Current position Title Former Head coach Team Liberty Coaching career (HC unless noted) 1972–1978
1978–1981Liberty (asst.)
LibertyHead coaching record Overall 48-46 (.511) Accomplishments and honors Championships 1980 NCCAA National Championship Dale Gibson is a former men's basketball coach at Liberty University (then called Lynchburg Baptist College). After leaving coaching, he served as a professor at Liberty where he started the school's Sport Management program. Currently he teaches at Tusculum College.
As a coach, he served as the first assistant basketball coach at Liberty University beginning with the program's launch n 1972. Then in 1978, he was named the school's third ever head men's basketball coach. In his second season, he led the Flames to a national championship in the National Christian College Athletic Association.[1]
Head coaching record
Season Team Overall Liberty Flames (NCCAA) (1978–1981) 1978–1979 Liberty 15-16 1979–1980 Liberty 28-11 NCCAA National Champions 1980–1981 Liberty 5-19 Liberty: 48-46 Total: 48-46 National Champion Conference Regular Season Champion Conference Tournament Champion
Conference Regular Season & Conference Tournament Champion Conference Division ChampionReferences
- ^ 2007-2008 Liberty University Men's Basketball Media Guide pp. 108-109
External links
Liberty Flames basketball head coaches Dan Manley (1972–1977) • Skeeter Swift (1977–1978) • Dale Gibson (1978–1981) • Jeff Meyer (1981–1997) • Randy Dunton (1997–1998) • Mel Hankinson (1998–2002) • Randy Dunton (2002–2007) • Ritchie McKay (2007–2009) • Dale Layer (2009– )
Categories:- American basketball coaches
- Liberty Flames basketball coaches
- Living people
- Tusculum College faculty
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