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| Affiliation | Republican |
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2020-01-01 |
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| Name | Garland Pinholster |
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Ball Ground, Georgia , United States |
| Email | None |
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February 19, 1928
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| Died | September 20, 2020
(92 years)
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| Contributor | eddy 9_99 |
| Last Modifed | David
Feb 19, 2021 09:20am |
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| Info | Garland Folsom Pinholster
Pinholster was a part of the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame's class of 2020 inductees and was also inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame, the Oglethorpe Athletic Hall of Fame and the University of North Georgia Athletics Hall of Fame.
At Oglethorpe University in 1956, he took over an unfunded men’s basketball team that had reportedly lost to a YMCA group. In 1963, Pinholster took his Stormy Petrels to the semifinals of the NCAA Division II tournament. He also coached the U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team that won a gold medal at the 1963 Pan American Games.
In what seems like a short tenure between 1956 to 1966 at Oglethorpe, Pinholster became a legend.
“He has been the mentor and th
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