Gary Blair
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| Sport(s) | Women's basketball | ||||||||||||
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| Title | Head coach | ||||||||||||
| Team | Texas A&M | ||||||||||||
| Record | 324–134 (.707) | ||||||||||||
| Annual salary | $800,000 | ||||||||||||
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| Born |
August 10, 1945 Dallas, Texas |
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| Playing career | |||||||||||||
| 1964 | Texas Tech (Baseball) | ||||||||||||
| Position(s) | CF | ||||||||||||
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| 1973–1980 | South Oak Cliff HS | ||||||||||||
| 1980–1985 | Louisiana Tech (asst.) | ||||||||||||
| 1985–1993 | Stephen F. Austin | ||||||||||||
| 1993–2003 | Arkansas | ||||||||||||
| 2003–present | Texas A&M | ||||||||||||
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| Championships | |||||||||||||
| NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship (2011) Big 12 Conference Tournament Championship (2008, 2010) Big 12 Conference Championship (2007) WNIT Championship (1999) Southland Conference Championship (1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993) Southland Conference Tournament Championship (1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993) Texas Class 4A High School Championship (1977, 1978, 1980) |
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Gary Claude Blair (born August 10, 1945) is the head coach of the Texas A&M Aggies women's basketball team. In his 26 years as a collegiate head coach, Blair has only suffered one losing season, and has reached postseason play 24 times, including 19 NCAA Tournament appearances, including 2 Final Four appearances in 1998 and 2011. He led the Aggies to the NCAA national championship in 2011. He is listed in the top 35 of the all-time winningest active NCAA Division 1 women's basketball coaches, and is one of the few coaches to guide three different schools to national rankings and NCAA Tournament berths.
Gary Blair is the son of Lee, a plaster foreman, and Jean, a housewife. He was raised in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Dallas. He grew up playing baseball, and as a 128-pound center fielder at Bryan Adams High School, he received all-city honors in 1963. Following his high school graduation in 1963, he enrolled at Texas Tech University, where he failed out of architecture, and moved to California to become a restaurant manager. He got a U.S. Army draft notice in 1969, and decided to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps, completing a four-year tour of duty. He was stationed in Okinawa during his duty. After his tour, he lived in the Los Angeles area, running a restaurant in Costa Mesa and Culver City. At age 27, he used his G.I. Bill to earn a bachelor's degree in health and physical education with a minor in journalism from Texas Tech. He also played a year of baseball for the Red Raiders—he was a defensive center fielder with self-described poor hitting skills. He earned his master's degree in education from the school in 1974.
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