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Lifelong Frog
Jamie Dixon goes home to LA and takes No. 20 TCU basketball with him
BY CARLOS MENDEZ
cmendez@star-telegram.com
For the first time in a long and successful career, Jamie Dixon gets to go home to coach a game.
“I don’t even know what home is anymore,” he said with a smile.
Basketball has taken the TCU coach a long way from his hometown of North Hollywood, Calif., for a long time.
He left after high school to play at TCU. Then it was on to a brief professional career in Australia, then coaching in New Zealand, back to Los Angeles for a couple of years at a junior college, up to Santa Barbara where he earned a master’s degree in economics, then Hawaii and later Northern Arizona.
Read more at http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/college/big-12/texas-christian-university/article188547649.html
BY CARLOS MENDEZ
cmendez@star-telegram.com
For the first time in a long and successful career, Jamie Dixon gets to go home to coach a game.
“I don’t even know what home is anymore,” he said with a smile.
Basketball has taken the TCU coach a long way from his hometown of North Hollywood, Calif., for a long time.
He left after high school to play at TCU. Then it was on to a brief professional career in Australia, then coaching in New Zealand, back to Los Angeles for a couple of years at a junior college, up to Santa Barbara where he earned a master’s degree in economics, then Hawaii and later Northern Arizona.
Read more at http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/college/big-12/texas-christian-university/article188547649.html