Donald Wayne Meyer was an American college basketball coach who completed his career in 2010 as head coach of the men's team at Northern State University.
13 Facts About Don Meyer
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Don Meyer was once head coach at Hamline University and Lipscomb University.
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Don Meyer held the record for most wins by a men's basketball coach whose career included at least one stint with an NCAA member school, until it was surpassed by Duke University coach Mike Krzyzewski in November 2011.
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Don Meyer is the subject of the book, Playing for Coach Meyer written by Steve Smiley, who played for Meyer as a point guard, and who served as an assistant coach from 2006 to 2008.
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Meyer is the subject of a more extensive biography, How Lucky You Can Be: The Story of Coach Don Meyer, written by ESPN baseball analyst Buster Olney, who has had a close relationship with Meyer since Olney was assigned to cover baseball in Nashville while Meyer was coaching at Lipscomb.
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Don Meyer taught me how to teach others how to play the game.
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Don Meyer had cancer that was discovered in his liver and intestines during emergency surgery after a car crash on September 5,2008.
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Don Meyer's lower left leg had to be amputated below the knee due to injuries from the car crash.
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At the ESPY Awards 2009, Don Meyer was awarded the Jimmy V Award For Perseverance.
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In February 2011, Coach Don Meyer was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame not only for his basketball coaching skills and records but was recognized as an outstanding collegiate basketball and baseball athlete and administrator.
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In 2012, Don Meyer was inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame.
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Casey Bond, a Lipscomb alum, produced the independent film about Don Meyer called My Many Sons, along with producing partner Brad Wilson.
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Don Meyer died of complications from his cancer on May 18,2014, aged 69, in Aberdeen, South Dakota.