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Albert P. Brewer High School. United States Military Academy.
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Gary Winton
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A 6"5" forward from Somerville, Alabama, Winton scored a then-school record 2,296 points (later surpassed by Kevin Houston) and grabbed a still-standing school record 1,168 rebounds. On 14 occasions he scored 30 or more points and recorded 15+ rebounds 17 times. The National Basketball Association"s Cleveland Cavaliers selected him in the 1978 National Basketball Association Draft, but due to a five-year commitment to serve in the United States Army after graduation, he never played in the league.
After graduation, he did play on the pre-Olympic traveling United States of America Basketball Team.
In 1979, the men"s basketball team participated in the Soviet Union"s Spartakiad, an international sports event that the Soviet Union attempted to use to both oppose and supplement the Olympics. Winton ultimately never made the official Olympic roster, however.
In 1990 he served as Army"s head softball coach for just that one season. Fifteen years later he was inducted in the Army Sports Hall of Fame as part of their 14-person induction class in 2005.
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