BIO:

Coach Ron Link has been a basketball coach and teacher at the high school, junior college and the NCAA Division I levels for thirty-eight years. He has coached and been guest speaker in summer camps and clinics across the south. He is know most for his optimism and enthusiasm, and is also affectionately called the “Quote Man” by many of his former students and players.

His ability to motivate and inspire young people and help them in the “game of life” has caused his teams to come out on top wherever he coaches and teaches. He has taken his teams to state and national tournaments many times, and was selected to coach the Atlanta Team in the famous “Boston Shootout”, which is a nationally recognize tournament of major cities across America. His Atlanta Team won the “Boston Shootout” in 1979, 1983, 1986, 1987, and 1988. Atlanta is the only team to win the tournament five times. Coach Link was placed in the “Boston Shootout Hall of Fame”, in 1989, for the successes of the Atlanta Teams.

In his thirty-eight years of coaching he has been selected the “Coach of the Year” eighteen times, and four of them have been these past five years. In 2002-2004 Coach Link had the highest winning percentage in the state of Georgia with a record of 53 – 5. And his Cedar Shoals High School team led the state in scoring three seasons ago with a 90.17 points per-game average. Coach Link’s players have also won 5 straight Northeast Georgia “Player of the Year” awards (including this past season). The Jaguars won the Region championship this year and finished the year ranked in the top 5, with a 25-5 record.

Yet, the most important thing of all is that Coach Link was added to “God’s Hall of Fame” when he was 12 years old, on Mother’s Day in 1958. His entire family loves the Lord and that’s the greatest victory anyone could ever experience. The Link’s are members of Prince Avenue Baptist Church in Athens, Georgia.

Coach Link has been married to Cathy Link for twenty-eight years and they have one son Chad, and three daughters Jessica, Christi, and Sherry. He also has five grandchildren.