Greg Koubek

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Career highlights and awards

Greg Koubek (born March 15, 1969)[1][2] is an American retired basketball player best known for his collegiate career at Duke University between 1987 and 1991. He also played professionally overseas after college for several years.

Early life

A native of the greater Albany, New York area, Koubek attended Shenendehowa High School from 1985 to 1987 in Clifton Park.[2] He led the basketball team to a state championship as a senior in 1987 and later became the first athlete in school history to have his jersey number retired.[2] Following the 1987 season he was named a McDonald's All-American, and he was the co-honoree of the Mr. New York Basketball award, given to the state's best high school boys' basketball player.[1] Koubek finished his high school career having scored 1,972 points and grabbed 682 rebounds, both being the most in school history.[3]

College

A 1988–89 basketball card of Koubek

Koubek's career playing for the

sophomore seasons he scored 312 points. Duke won the ACC tournament in 1988, his freshman year, and also made it all the way to the NCAA tournament Final Four – the first of five straight Final Four appearances.[1][2] As a junior in 1990, Duke made it to the 1990 National Championship but Duke's All-American point guard, Bobby Hurley, had an intestinal flu[4] the night of the game, resulting in Duke losing to UNLV, 103–73. That score is still the worst margin of defeat in NCAA Championship Game history. Koubek played in all 38 games and started 12 of them.[1]

As a senior in

appear in 145 or more career games[6] (Koubek's 146 career games is second only to Christian Laettner's 147 in Duke history.) That season, Duke won the ACC regular season title and went on to win the first of back-to-back NCAA championships. Koubek was a team captain as a senior as well.[1]

Professional and later life

Koubek spent a short stint playing in the United States Basketball League (USBL) right after college.[1] Afterward, he played professionally for the next six years in South Africa, Turkey, Hungary, and Japan.[2] Koubek retired in 1997 and returned home to the Capital District of New York. Koubek became Executive Director of the Albany YMCA. He moved to California[2] where he served as Executive Director of Gardena-Carson Family YMCA. In addition, he runs an annual basketball camp with his brother, Tim, called the Greg Koubek Basketball Camp.[2] In 2018, Koubek was named Executive Director of the new Triunfo YMCA in Westlake Village, California, opening in 2019.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Greg Koubek". DukeUpdate.com. 2010. Retrieved November 20, 2010.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "About: Greg Koubek, Director". koubekcamps.com. Greg Koubek Basketball Camps Inc. Archived from the original on June 12, 2010. Retrieved November 20, 2010.
  3. ^ "Shenendehowa Basketball Records". shenbasketball.com. Retrieved November 20, 2010.
  4. ^ Lincicome, Bernie (April 1, 1990). "Hurley Makes A Pit Stop, Revs Up Duke To Triumph". Chicago Tribune. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
  5. ^ Kent, Milton (March 26, 1991). "Entering his fourth Final Four, Duke's Koubek knows road well". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved November 28, 2010.
  6. ^ "2010–11 NCAA Men's Basketball Records" (PDF). 2010–11 NCAA Men's Basketball Media Guide. National Collegiate Athletic Association. 2010. Retrieved November 20, 2010.
  7. ^ "Greg Koubek named executive director of Triunfo YMCA" VC Star (April 25, 2018).
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