The Register-Herald, Beckley, West Virginia - Shady Spring native hired to coach men's basketball at D&E

Buck" Smith nowadays named Dr. Greg Myers, former WVU, Davis & Elkins and United States Naval Institute men's soccer coach, as athletic employer and professor of health and physical education; and Shady Spring native Bruce M. Martin, a former West Virginia eminent academy basketball scoring champion, as mind men's basketball coach and assistant athletic director.

We searched nationally for the finest doable control for our athletic and men's basketball programs," said Smith. Greg Myers and Bruce Martin rose quickly to the top. They, along with Dr.

Mary Ann DeLuca, professor of health and physical education and assistant athletic director, testament feather an a-number 1 academic and athletic management gang for the approaching of Davis & Elkins athletics." Head of the state Smith will officially introduce Dr. Myers and Martin during a press convention at 11 a.m.

Friday, Jun 5, in The McDonnell Centre on the Davis and Elkins Institution campus. Myers, 71, led Davis & Elkins to two NAIA federal championships in 1968 and 1970, and public runner up in 1969. He sequential coached the Miami Toros of the now-defunct North American Soccer Coalition (NASL) before captivating the reins of the United States Naval Faculty Men's Soccer Programme for 28 seasons.

Myers won over 330 collegiate soccer matches during his 37 dotage of coaching, mentoring and teaching callow men how to succeed on and off the soccer field. Joining Myers at D&E, Martin, 37, most recently coached at the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg, Texas, where he was an assistant coach for the NCAA Division I club because 2007.

A graduate of Clemson University with a bachelor's measure in incident management, Martin has coached for Clemson, Wyoming, Radford, Francis Marion and as sense coach of Ockelbo Basketball Club, a efficient company in Sweden. Davis & Elkins vise president and manager operating officer Kevin Wilson famous that Martin will be a worthy fit for D&E.

He's from West Virginia and was an All-State player during high rise school," said Wilson. He knows the coaching programs in this native land and he has a powerful background as a player, coach and recruiter for Division I schools. All of his former belief coaches recommended him highly."

Martin played for Clemson as a undergraduate from 1990-95 and was body leader his senior year. A shooting guard, he was a three-time Civic Invitation Tournament player and ranked third in the ACC for three-point world objective percentage (44.4 percent) and fifth for three-point universe goals per entertainment (2.3). A graduate of Shady Spring Gigantic School, Martin is the school's all-time valuable scorer and was the community scoring prizewinner in 1989.

He was twice named elementary bunch All-State and holds the nation data (boys) with 15 threes in a pastime against Dale in the Fayette County Shootout in 1989. Ironically, the Tigers hidden the game. Gem a Physician Premium Jobs Game Befalling - MITCHELL1 Biz OPPORTUNITY.