Keith Booth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Keith Booth

American basketball player-coach

Date of Birth: 09-Oct-1974

Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Profession: basketball player, basketball coach

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Keith Booth

  • Keith Eugene Booth (born October 9, 1974) is an American basketball coach and former player.
  • Booth played college basketball at the University of Maryland from 1994 to 1997.
  • He was an assistant coach at his alma mater under Gary Williams from 2004 to 2011.
  • He is currently an assistant coach for G.G.
  • Smith with the Loyola University Maryland men's basketball team.Booth was born and raised in Baltimore and attended Paul Laurence Dunbar High School.
  • Heavily recruited by coach Gary Williams, he was the first player from Baltimore City in several years to play for Maryland.
  • After the resignation of Williams' predecessor, Bob Wade, due to NCAA violations, a de facto boycott of the university was put in place by the high-school coaches in Baltimore.
  • Because of this boycott, many star high-school players avoided Maryland as a choice to play their college ball.
  • In becoming one of the members of Maryland's 1993 recruiting class, Booth broke the ice, and the school once again had access to talent-rich Baltimore City.
  • Booth was a 1993 McDonald's All-American.Booth was the Chicago Bulls' first-pick (28th overall) in the 1997 NBA Draft, and he played two seasons with the Bulls.
  • Booth later returned to the Maryland campus and earned a bachelor's degree in criminology and criminal justice in 2003.
  • After getting his degree, he worked at the Park School of Baltimore in Brooklandville, Maryland, where he was the middle school baseball coach.
  • He also volunteered at an after-school program at his former high school, Dunbar.In 2004, he returned to his alma mater to become an assistant under Williams.
  • He organized recruiting as well as promoting and directing the Gary Williams Summer Basketball Camp each Summer in College Park.
  • After Williams' retirement in 2011, Booth left Maryland when incoming head coach Mark Turgeon chose not to retain him.In October 2011, Booth was named a women's basketball assistant coach at Loyola University Maryland.
  • He transitioned to the school's men's basketball team in a similar capacity on April 16, 2013.

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