How Lucky You Can Be: The Story of Coach Don Meyer

How Lucky You Can Be: The Story of Coach Don Meyer

In September 2008, Northern State University menâ€™s basketball coach Don Meyer stood on the brink of immortality. He was about to surpass the legendary Bobby Knight to become the all-time NCAA wins leader in menâ€™s basketball. Then, on a two-lane road in South Dakota, everything changed in an instant.

In How Lucky You Can Be, acclaimed sports journalist Buster Olney tells the remarkable story of the successive tragedies that befell Coach Meyer but could not defeat him. Laid low by a horrific car accident that led to the amputation of his left leg below the knee, Coach Meyer had barely emerged from surgery when his doctors informed him that he also had terminal cancer. In the blink of an eye, this prototypical 24/7 workaholic coachâ€”who arrived at the gym most mornings before 6 a.m.â€”found himself forced to reexamine his priorities at the age of sixty-three. A model of reserve, Coach Meyer had sacrificed much of his emotional life to his program. His wife, Carmen, felt disconnected because of his habitual reticence, while his three childrenâ€”all now well into adulthoodâ€”had long had to compete with basketball for his attention.

With sensitivity and skill, Olney shows how Coach Meyer mined his physical ordeal for the spiritual strength to transform his life. In the months that followed his accident and diagnosis, he reached out to family, friends, and former players in a way he had never been able to do before, making the most of this one last opportunity to tell those close to him how he felt about themâ€”and in turn he received an outpouring of affirmation that confirmed how deeply he had affected others. Sustained throughout an often painful recovery by his love of basketball, he would return to the court once moreâ€”with a newfound appreciation for the gameâ€™s place in his life.

The inspirational story of a life renewed by unimaginable hardship, How Lucky You Can Be proves that itâ€™s never too late to start making changesâ€”and reminds us that fortune can smile upon us even in our most trying hours.
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Country USA
Brand ESPN Books
Manufacturer ESPN
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber new-20170302-c0030096
ReleaseDate 2010-11-09
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780345524119

Country	USA
Brand	ESPN Books
Manufacturer	ESPN
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	new-20170302-c0030096
ReleaseDate	2010-11-09
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780345524119

How Lucky You Can Be: The Story of Coach Don Meyer

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