Chasing Perfect: The Will to Win in Basketball and Life

✍ Scribed by Hurley, Bob

• Book ID: 107822321
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307986887

✦ Synopsis

The inspiring story of the most famous high school basketball coach in America.

In 40 seasons as the head coach of St. Anthony High School, a private parochial school in Jersey City, New Jersey, Bob Hurley has established a standard of excellence and achievement without peer, and remarkably, he has done this at a high school with a total student body enrollment of about 230, with no gymnasium, and with an operating deficit that threatens to shut the place down each year. Hurley himself sweeps the floor before each home game. Despite the long odds against them, Hurley's teams have captured 26 state titles and four consensus national championships, all behind an astonishing career winning percentage of .905.
In Undefeated, Hurley opens up his tool box and shares some of the champtionship strategies he's developed to help lift his players up and out of Jersey City. The narrative centerpiece will be each of St. Anthony's seven undefeated seasons, with...