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CHANCELLOR from ~ge Bl head coach of the United States National Team in 2004 and 2002. He led the 2004 squad to an Olympic gold medal. He began his coaching career wl"iile a s<•nior at Mississippi State University, serving as f.tead coach of the boys' basket– ballll~am at Noxapater High School. He ~t~rved two years at Noxapater hl!forc laking over as head coach of the boys' and girls' basketball teams at Horn

Lake High School, where he compiled an impressive 307-103 overall record. His boys' teams went 164-51 and the girls' record was 173-52. Chancellor continued hi·s success at Harrison Central High School, where his teams amassed a five-year record of 277 wins and 62 losses. His led the boys' teams to a 121-38 record and the girls posted a 156-24 mark and captured consecutive State 4-A and State Overall ba~ketball championships in 1976 and 1977. He left Harrison Central in 1978 to take

over the Ole Miss Rebel program. Chancellor was a former basketball standout at Louisville High School, where he averaged 24 points per game his senior season. He continued his athletic career at then East Central Junior College in Decatur, where he played two years for coach Denver Brackeen, who was posthu– mously inducted into the Mississippi Com– munity College Sporl<> Hall of Fame in 2007. Additional honors Chancellor has received include the Naismith Memorial

Basketball Hall of Fame, 2007; American Association of Community and Junior Col– leges OutstandingAlumni Award, 2005; USA Basketball Coach of the Year, 2002; Women's Basketball HalJ of Fame, 2001; Mississ ippi Sports Hall of Fame, 1998; and National Women's Basketball Coach of the Year by the Women's Basketball News Ser– vice, 1992. Chancellor is married to the former Betty Cannon. They have a son, John, and a daughter, Renee, and four grandchildren, Nicholas, Jacob, Joseph and Zachary.