Fran Garmon

Fran Garmon is an American basketball coach. Her collegiate heading coaching career included position at Temple Junior College, Delta State, and Texas Christian University. She was active in the USA Basketball, serving as head coach of the gold medal winning World University Games team in 1979 and the Pan American Games team in 1983. She also held leadership positions with the US national team. Garmon was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000.

Early years

Garmon had interest in basketball as early as the age of 5 when "her cousin Gene Morris held her up high enough to put a ball through a hoop". She played high school basketball at Moody High School, playing the two-division court, six player system in vogue at the time. Although a junior-college, she sometimes scheduled four-year schools such as UCLA. They competed in one national invitational tournament and defeated UCLA, which led her to say with a smile, “(That) was a big mistake because then they banned all junior colleges from it after that,”. After Delta state, Garmon spent a decade at Texas Christian University where her teams were 78–192 between 1983 and 1993.

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USA Basketball

Garmon was actively involved, and had multiple roles in the USA basketball organization.

In 1979, she was asked to serve as head coach of the USA entry into the World University Games. The team went on to win the gold medal.

In 1983, the USA basketball organization took the same team that had lost in the recent world championships and entered them in the Pan Am games. While all the players with the same as the previous team, there was one difference — they changed the coaches, choosing Fran Garmon as head coach and Kay Yow as assistant coach. The team would go on to win the gold medal.