Overtime Kids: The Untold Story of a Small-Town Kentucky Basketball Team's Unlikely Rise to the State Championship - Hardcover

by Don Miller (Author)

Overtime Kids is an inspiring account of the smallest school to ever win the Kentucky State High School Basketball Championship, knocking out the highest scoring player in history in the process Discover with Dr. Don Miller how this humble coal-mining town produced some of the state's most determined players ever and the tremendous lifelong principles that guided them to the championship and beyond. This story of the Carr Creek High 1956 Kentucky State Champions is truly an inspiration to students and sports fans everywhere.

Author Biography

Don Miller graduated from Carr Creek High School in 1948, where he was all-state in basketball the same year. Don received an A.B. and M.A. from Morehead State College (now University). After coaching and teaching in high schools for three years, he taught at Pfeiffer College, Misenheimer, NC, and Asbury College, Wilmore, KY, before completing the doctorate of education from Indiana University in 1972. Don retired as head Professor of Education after teaching thirty years at Morehead State University. He resides in Lexington, Kentucky.