Tony Harper
Montwood High School
Impact Statement
Harper continues to lead Centennial. He boasts over 1,000 career wins and is the second winningest coach in the nation.
Biography
Tony Harper is the 2013 National High School Coaches Association’s National High School Boys’ Basketball Coach of the Year after becoming the fourth boys’ basketball coach in America to win 900 wins during the 2012-13 school year.
Harper, who led Montwood to a 27-6 record this past season, ended the year with 908 lifetime victories. He, who took-over at Montwood in 1990, was named the University Interscholastic League’s Texas Boys’ Basketball Coach of the Year in 2012. Montwood named the gymnasium in his honor in 2010.
In April, Harper resigned at Montwood to take the head coaching job at Cathedral High School.
Harper has continued his success on the court since being honored in 2013. He hit another milestone in his coaching journey on February 10, 2017 with a 47-33 victory to garnish his 1,000th career victory. He’s the second winningest coach in the nation.
In 2018, he was inducted into the Texas High School Basketball Hall of Fame.
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