Celester "CC" Collier (born c. 1952) is a retired American basketball coach. Collier played

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from 1979–1981, and

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from 1981 to 1983. He coached at SWT for two years after playing. He was inducted into the

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and the Southwest Texas State Hall of Honor in 2001. Collier spent the last 31 years of a 43-year coaching career as the boys basketball head coach at Bowie High School in

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. He coached ''

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'' writer Rob Thomas at San Marcos High School in the late 1980s. Thomas's team has the second best record under Collier (32–4). Collier won numerous District Coach of the Year awards, and was Bowie High School's Coach of the Year in 1994. In 2004, Bowie High School was selected as the filming location for the feature film ''

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''. The Bowie High School basketball team was chosen to act in the film and Collier was the head coach for

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's team in the movie. In 2006, Collier guided Bowie to a 33–3 record and was named Central Texas Coach of the Year by the ''

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''. In 2019, Collier led Bowie to its first regional tournament in 25 years.

Head coaching record

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