Larry Chapman, Sr. is an American athletic coach who served as the men's
college basketball
In United States colleges, top-tier basketball is governed by collegiate athletic bodies including National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), the United States Collegiate Athleti ...
head coach for
Auburn University at Montgomery
Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM) is a public university in Montgomery, Alabama. Established by an act of the Alabama Legislature in 1967, it is governed by the Auburn University Board of Trustees as a member of the Auburn University syste ...
(AUM) from 1976 to 2014.
[ Prior to coaching at AUM, he served 3 seasons as a head coach at ]Georgia Southern University
Georgia Southern University (GS or Georgia Southern) is a public research university in the U.S. state of Georgia. The flagship campus is in Statesboro, and other locations include the Armstrong Campus in Savannah and the Liberty Campus in Hine ...
, for a total of 40 seasons in his college head coaching career.[
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Career
Georgia Southern
Chapman was head basketball coach at Georgia Southern for three seasons, from 1975-1977, where he had a 35-45 record.[
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Auburn University at Montgomery
Chapman came to AUM prior to the 1977-78 season. In the previous two seasons, the men's basketball team had won only 26 games. In his second season, he led the team to a 20-win season. [
Chapman's records at AUM included eight straight seasons with an average of 25 or more wins. His teams won three straight NAIA District 27 Championships with the team.][ He amassed a record of 679-450 at AUM,][ ranking him fifth in career victories among NAIA coaches and among the top 40 for all collegiate coaches. Chapman had fifteen (15) 20-win seasons.][ He has also coached two teams to the tournament quarterfinals and three into the second round. In total, Chapman-coached teams qualified for 11 NAIA National Tournaments.][
The 1987-88 team posted a record of 32-3 and reached the national championship game.][ Following that season, Chapman was named the NAIA's Coach of the Year.
Chapman was inducted into the inaugural AUM Athletic Hall of Fame class in 2005.][ He retired from AUM in 2014.][
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After retirement
In 2015, one year after retiring from AUM, Chapman became head basketball coach for Macon East Academy (MEA), a college preparatory school in Cecil, Alabama
Cecil is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Alabama, United States. Cecil is located on Alabama State Route 110, east-southeast of Montgomery. Cecil had a post office until it closed on May 20, 1986; it still has its own ZIP code ...
.[In his second season, the MEA team won the state championship, with a record of 33-0.][He retired in 2018.
In 2012, Chapman, along with his son Larry Chapman, Jr, founded the Coach Chapman Foundation, which funds AUM student athlete scholarships.][
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References
External Links
Coach Chapman Foundation
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Living people
Auburn Tigers men's basketball players
Basketball coaches from Georgia (U.S. state)
Basketball players from Georgia (U.S. state)
College men's basketball head coaches in the United States
Georgia Southern Eagles men's basketball coaches
High school basketball coaches in Alabama
Auburn University at Montgomery people
Year of birth missing (living people)