Fred Overton
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| Fred Overton | ||
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| Sport | Basketball | |
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| Overall | 44-59 | |
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| 1963-1969 1969-1971 1971-1974 1974-1978 |
Austin Peay (Asst.) Pepperdine (Asst.) Murray State (Asst.) Murray State |
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Fred Overton, Jr. is a former head basketball coach at Murray State University and currently a nation-wide motivational speaker. He is a former student of Charles Stanley's Luther Rice Seminary. [1]
[edit] Basketball
Overton began his coaching career as an assistant at Austin Peay in 1963. In 1969, he moved cross country to coach at Pepperdine [2]. He retuned to the Ohio Valley Conference to serve as as assistant to Cal Luther at Murray State. In 1974 he was elevated to the head coaching position. [3] In four seasons at Murray State his overall record was 44-59 [4]
[edit] Religion
In 1980, Overton was saved under the preaching of Charles Stanley . During the 80's, he was in full-time secular sales work, taught adult Sunday School at First Baptist Atlanta and attended Luther Rice Seminary by correspondence. In September 1991, Fred was called into full-time Christian work teaching his seminar "Is the Bible Reliable?". Since then he has developed additional five seminars. His teaching ministry is now nation-wide. [5]
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