SAN ANTONIO ? The UTSA Alumini Connections Breakfast ? scheduled for 7:15 a.m. on Tuesday, July 17, at the Marriott Northwest Hotel ? will feature NCAA College Basketball Hall of Fame member Nevil Shed.
Shed was one of the first African-American men in the United States to play in an NCAA basketball game. He was a member of the Texas Western Miners (now University of Texas-El Paso) team that won the 1966 National Championship coached by Don Haskins.
The Miners made history for being the first team to start an all African-American lineup in the championship game and Shed was one of the starters in the lineup. The Disney blockbuster film Glory Road chronicles the team’s outstanding journey.
Shed was drafted by the Boston Celtics in 1968, but an injury sidelined his career. He later became an assistant to his college coach, Haskins, at Texas Western. In 1981, Shed was hired as assistant coach for the first UTSA basketball team and he retired from UTSA in 2006.
Many honors later, Shed speaks to groups of all ages on the story of his faith in himself, his mentors and, of course, basketball.
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