Background
Inman, Larry Joe was born on January 3, 1948 in Summer County, Tennessee, United States.
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Larry Joe Inman
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Bachelor of Science, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee, 1970. Master, Tennessee State University, 1977.
Career
A native of Gallatin, Tennessee, Inman received his bachelor"s degree fropm Austin Peay State University in 1970 and his master"s degree from Tennessee State in 1978. Iman began his coaching career in 1970 in his hometown, at Gallatin Junior High School, where his teams were 51-4 in his three seasons. Inman was then hired as the women"s coach at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro.
After two years away form coaching, in 1988, Inman was named head coach of the Lady Colonels at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky, a school that had had a winning season only once in eleven OVC seasons.
Inman retired in 2008 but returned to coaching at Lebanon High School in Lebanon, Tennessee in 2010. The all-time winningest coach in Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball history, Inman was elected to the OVC Hall of Fame in 2009.
On April 16, 2012, Tennessee State University in Nashville, announced that, following a national search, Inman was to be their new head women"s basketball coach.
Achievements
Membership
Member of Womans Basketball Coaches Association.
Connections
Married Bobby Gene Follis. Children: Jody, Latrice, Tiffany.
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Awards
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Named Coach of Year, Ohio Valley Conference, 1979-1980, 1982-1983, 1984-1985, 1990-1991, 1994-1995, 1996-1997, 2001, Man of Year, 2001. Recipient Coach of Year, Ohio Valley Conference, 2005.Named Coach of Year, Ohio Valley Conference, 1979-1980, 1982-1983, 1984-1985, 1990-1991, 1994-1995, 1996-1997, 2001, Man of Year, 2001. Recipient Coach of Year, Ohio Valley Conference, 2005.