Gerald Myers is an American

United States

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 former college basketball

College basketball

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 coach. He was the head coach

Head coach

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 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders men's basketball

Texas Tech Red Raiders men's basketball

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 team and the Houston Baptist Huskies men's basketball

Houston Baptist Huskies men's basketball

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 team.

Myers served as the athletic director

Athletic director

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 at Texas Tech University

Texas Tech University

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 from 1995-2011. Originally from Borger, Texas

Borger, Texas

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, Myers played basketball for Texas Tech from 1956 to 1959. As a player, he had an 86.9 percent free throw shooting average for the 1957-58 season. He received a bachelor's degree in education from Texas Tech in 1959 and later earned a Master's Degree there in 1965. He coached basketball for Lubbock Monterey High School

Monterey High School (Lubbock, Texas)

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 and Houston Baptist University

Houston Baptist University

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. In 1970, he returned to Texas Tech as an assistant coach. He became head coach of the team during the 1970–71 basketball season and held this position for twenty years. Under Myers, the Red Raiders won two conference championships and earned four trips to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

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Retirement

On August 26, 2010, Myers retired as Texas Tech's athletic director effective May 31, 2011.