George Terence Schofield (born June 16, 1948) is an American former
basketball
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player and coach. He played
college basketball
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with the
UCLA Bruins
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, winning three national championships (1969–1971) under Coach
John Wooden
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. Schofield played professionally in Germany, where he later became a basketball coach. He also became an English lecturer for a German university.
Early life
Schofield was born in Los Angeles,
and began playing organized basketball in the fifth grade.
He attended
Saint Monica Catholic High School in
Santa Monica, California
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,
[http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/HELMS/Basketball/HelmsBasketballAnnual1966.pdf ] where he was a three-time All-Bay Area first team selection, named to the all-league first team twice, awarded the league's
Most Valuable Player
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, and was also first-team all-
California Interscholastic Federation
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(CIF).
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College career
Schofield enrolled at Santa Monica City College, where he led the Metropolitan Conference in scoring as a freshman in 1966–67 after averaging 21 points
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per game.[ The following year, he transferred to the ]University of California, Los Angeles
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(UCLA), where he was on their non-playing squad for a year.
As a sophomore in 1968–69, he was expected to start for the Bruins. However, he was beaten out by John Vallely
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High school career
Vallely attended Coro ...
, another junior college transfer, though Schofield was the better shooter. The move left him unhappy for two years. After Vallely graduated, Coach John Wooden
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opted to promote Kenny Booker
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to start over Schofield in 1970–71. The coach felt Booker was slightly better on defense and would be a better fit with the other starters. Schofield became the top guard
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off the bench, and served as the team's sixth man. He averaged 6.2 points and 2.4 rebounds
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as UCLA finished 29–1 and captured their seventh National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship in eight seasons.[ It was Schofield's third straight title with the Bruins (1969–1971); he is one of 14 players who won three national titles at UCLA under Wooden.
]
Professional career
At the urging of former UCLA teammate John Ecker, Schofield went to Germany to play professionally. Playing for SSC Göttingen in the Basketball Bundesliga
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(BBL), he had a career-high 52 points in 1974. He later became a coach in Germany. He led Göttingen to BBL titles in 1980, 1983, and 1984; he has also coached TTL Bamberg. Starting in 1980, Schofield coached the German national team.[ He also became an English lecturer at the ]University of Göttingen
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.
References
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1948 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in Germany
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BG Göttingen players
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Santa Monica Corsairs men's basketball players
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University of Göttingen faculty