Legends of the Hardwood Breakfast

Saturday March 31,2012

 New Orleans, LA

Legends of the Hardwood Breakfast April 2, 2011
Houston, Texas

Charlie Ward
"The Keys to Life"
2011 recipient

1100 people attended the 2011 Legends of the Hardwood Breakfast in Houston Texas on Saturday morning. All had a great time listening to heroes of the game of basketball sharing their stories about character and faith. Charlie Ward was the 2011 Coach Wooden “Keys to Life” receipt

  Nan Muehlhausen Wooden, Coach Wooden’s daughter, Charlie Ward and Ernie Johnson as Charlie is accepting his award
 
Nancy Muehlhausen and
Tyler Trapani Coach Wooden's great grandson

Charlie Ward speaking at the
2011 Legends of the Hardwood Breakfast

Charlie Ward, Jr. is a retired professional NBA Basketball player, college football player, and a Major League Baseball draftee. Ward has received recognition for being one of the best all-around athletes in the last quarter century.

 In 1993, Ward won the Heisman Trophy as the nation's top collegiate football player after leading the Florida State Seminoles to the National Title. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2006. Ward did not play basketball in college, but was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 1993 free agent draft and by the New York Knicks in 1994-2004, and the Houston Rockets in 2004-2005.

Ward is very active in serving the community off the court. One of nine finalist for the 2001 NBA Home Team Community Service Award, he has served in a variety of ways from helping with a Thanksgiving Dinner at a West Harlem soup kitchen to investing in the lives of children in cities across the country. 

SPECIAL FEATURES included
Tribute to Coach Wooden
Nan Wooden
Game of the Century
1968 UCLA vs University of Houston
Glory Road- The Movie
David "Big Daddy" Lattin
PHI SLAMA JAMA- University of Houston
Clyde Drexler, Reid Gettys
Larry Micheaux, Lynden Rose, Michael Young

1998-Coach Marv Harshman

1999-A.C. Green, NBA All-Star

2000-Jerry Colangelo

2001-Junior Bridgeman, 12 Year NBA Veteran

2002-Mark Price, NBA All-Star

2003-Clark Kellogg, CBS basketball analyst

2004-David Robinson, NBA All-Star, MVP

2005-Bobby Jones, 1983 NBA Champions with the 76ers

2006-Coach Lorenzo Romar, University of Washington

2007-Jim Haney, Executive Director NABC

2008-Hubert Davis, ESPN College Basketball

2009-David Thompson, Basketball Hall of Fame
2010- Don Meyer, Northern State Coach