Dick Whitmore

Richard L. Whitmore Jr. (January 10, 1943) is an American former basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Colby College from 1970 to 2011 and Thomas College in 2014. He was also Colby's athletic director from 1987 to 2002.

Playing Whitmore was born in Portland, Maine, where his father, Dick Sr., was the basketball coach at Cheverus High School. Whitmore played for his father at Archbishop Williams High School in Braintree, Massachusetts and averaged 20 points per game as a senior. He graduated from Bowdoin 1965 with a degree in Latin. In 1969, he led Morse to the Western Maine finals. He coached fourteen All-Americans and a number of his players, including David Arseneault and David McLaughlin, went on to become college coaches. He was named Maine coach of the year six times. In 2014, he became Thomas's interim men's basketball coach after the sudden resignation of Darrell "Texas" Alexander.

Honors In 1998, Whitmore was inducted into the inaugural class of the Maine Sports Hall of Fame. In 2012, he was inducted into the Bowdoin Athletic Hall of Honor.