Ep. 14 HOF Ronald Golden Co- Founder of the St. Louis Eagles Basketball Club

In this episode we had the pleasure of sitting with Coach Ron Golden who is one of the founder members of the now Nike EYBL Bradley Beal Elite (St. Louis Eagles Basketball). A lot went into being one of the oldest Nike grassroots programs in the country and Coach shares with us the trails they all went through to get to this point. 

Along with being apart of the Eagles organization, Coach Golden is also a Hall of Fame Athlete from Missouri State University in Springfield MO.  Golden was the first African-American student-athlete to receive an athletics grant-in-aid for the sport of track at MSU. Golden also played junior varsity basketball for MSU as a freshman. In track, he was a standout high jumper for teams which regularly challenged for MIAA honors, finished third in the league four years in a row in the conference indoor meet and third three times and league runner-up in 1965 in the MIAA outdoor championship. 

Golden placed in the top five in the high jump in both the MIAA indoor meet and outdoor meets all four years he competed, including finishing second in the 1962 indoor meet and winning the championship in the 1962 outdoor event. He tied the school record in the high jump as a junior and held a share of that record at the time he graduated. He was also a track co-captain as a senior in 1965. 
A great history lesson for grassroots programs, give me feed on the episode. 

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