Interviewer
Ilena Levitt
Description
Eric Hays, a former University of Montana Basketball player and current Hellgate High School basketball coach, reflects back on growing up immersed in the world of sports. Beginning his career in Junction City, Oregon and finding himself in Missoula, Montana, Hays outlines his individual sports history that involved his multiple moves from college to college to play basketball and his eventual coaching career from the collegiate level to the high school level. Hays discusses the similarities between being a coach versus being a teacher of mathematics and how he has been able to mold the future generation of athletes and youths in his community. Lastly, he discusses stepping into an assistant coaching job after forty years as the Hellgate head coach and gives some parting advice to the future youth and future athletes within the sports community. Interviewer Ilena Levitt was an undergraduate student participating in the Griz Nation Oral History Project as part of the Griz130 History Initiative.
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Document Type
Oral History
Subjects
Hellgate High School; basketball; Pullman, Washington; John Wooden; Jud Heathcote; family; coach; teacher; University of Michigan; sports; Missoula, Montana
Original Date
11-21-2024
Publisher
University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield Library
Time Period
Twentieth century; Twenty-first century
Geographic Coverage
Missoula, Montana
Language
eng
Original Collection
University of Montana Griz Nation Oral History Collection
Digital Publisher
University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield Library
Rights
Copyright to this collection is held by the interview participants and by the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula. Permission may be required for use. For further information please contact Archives and Special Collections: (406) 243-2053 / library.archives@umontana.edu
Oral History Number
OH 492-024
Media Type
Sound;Text
Original Format
audio/mp3; application/pdf
Digital Format
audio/mp3; application/pdf
Run Time
01:13:29 minutes
Local Filename
OH_492_024_audio_use.mp3; OH_492_024_transcript.pdf
Citation
Hays, Eric, "Eric Hays Interview, November 21, 2024" (2024). University of Montana Griz Nation Oral History Collection. 24.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/griznation/24