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About Coach Ron Link

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 Coach Ron Link Bio

Coach Link has been a basketball coach and teacher at the high school, Junior College, and Division-1 level for forty years. He has coached and been a guest speaker in summer camps and clinics around the south. He was the only high school boys coach selected to speak at the GACA Summer Conference in St. Simons Island in 2010. He is known for his optimism and enthusiasm, and is also affectionately called the “Quote Man” by many of his former students and players.
 
He is the author of three books: “50 Characteristics for Completing the Puzzle of Life”, “Rebuilding the Heart: Piece by Piece” and. “Fearfully and Wonderfully Made”. He is a member of ISN (International Speakers Network) and does some traveling around the south speaking to major organizations, clubs, businesses, and churches.                         

His ability to motivate and inspire young people and help them in the “game of life” has been the main reasons so many of his teams have ended up on top wherever he coaches. He has guided many of his teams to the state tournament.  He was selected to coach the Atlanta Team in the famous “Boston Shootout”, and his Atlanta Team won this national tournament five times (1979, ‘83, ’86, ’87 and in ’88).  No other city can match the feat of the Atlanta Team. Coach Link was inducted into the “Boston Shootout Hall of Fame” for his successes as the Atlanta coach.  During this period he coach over 100 division-1 players and 15 of them went on to play in the NBA.
 
In his forty years of coaching he has been selected as the “Coach of the Year” twenty-one times. He has won 74.3% of his games throughout his career.

Coach Link led the eagles to a 28-3 over-all record, and a 19-0 Region 8-A record in 2008-09.  He has had 7 of the last 9 “North East Georgia – Player of the Year” in the past nine seasons. He was also selected as the Atlanta Journal Class A – “Coach of the Year” in 2009-10.. 
 
Coach Link is a “born again” Christian as he accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior when he was twelve years old. He says that his greatest thrill is not his successes but in seeing others excel in their efforts as students and athletes, and that his greatest honor was being selected to “God’s Hall of Fame” when he was twelve.
 
Coach Link’s major goal in life is to tell others what Christ means to him. He uses the phrase “Our Mission is Transition” for his teams to get up and down the floor, and it is used in his summer camps to get people from “lost” to “saved”.
 
Coach Link has been married to Cathy Link for the past thirty-three years. They have one son, Chad, and three daughters Christi, Sherry and Jessica. He also has
five grandchildren. 

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