Charles Ramsey (basketball coach)
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Charles Edward Ramsey is an American
college basketball
coach and the former head men's basketball coach at Eastern Michigan University
. He played collegiately for Fisk University
from 1979 to 1981.
Ramsey graduated from Ypsilanti High School in 1979, where he played on the baseball
, basketball and football teams. He graduated from Eastern Michigan University. He has been an assistant basketball coach at the University of California and the University of Michigan. He accepted the head coaching position at his alma mater, Eastern Michigan, in 2005. Ramsey was inducted into the Ypsilanti High School Hall of Fame in 2008.
Ramsey's 68 career wins (after the 2011 season) puts him 5th on the all-time career win list for EMU coaches. Ben Braun tops the list with 185 wins followed by Elton Rynerson with 160.
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College basketball
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coach and the former head men's basketball coach at Eastern Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Ypsilanti is west of Detroit and eight miles east of Ann Arbor. The university was founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School...
. He played collegiately for Fisk University
Fisk University
Fisk University is an historically black university founded in 1866 in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. The world-famous Fisk Jubilee Singers started as a group of students who performed to earn enough money to save the school at a critical time of financial shortages. They toured to raise funds to...
from 1979 to 1981.
Ramsey graduated from Ypsilanti High School in 1979, where he played on the baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, basketball and football teams. He graduated from Eastern Michigan University. He has been an assistant basketball coach at the University of California and the University of Michigan. He accepted the head coaching position at his alma mater, Eastern Michigan, in 2005. Ramsey was inducted into the Ypsilanti High School Hall of Fame in 2008.
Ramsey's 68 career wins (after the 2011 season) puts him 5th on the all-time career win list for EMU coaches. Ben Braun tops the list with 185 wins followed by Elton Rynerson with 160.