Morgan Wootten was born on April 21, 1931 in Durham, North Carolina, USA. He was married to Katherine Bourg. He died on January 21, 2020 in University Park, Maryland, USA.
Head basketball coach ad DeMatha Catholic High School, Hyattsville, Maryland;; 1956-2002. Record: 1,274 wins, 192 losses (winning percentage: .869).
Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000, the first to be inducted solely as a high school coach.
Since 2007, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame has given the Morgan Wootten Lifetime Achievement Award to a men's and a women's high school basketball coach "who have had tremendous influence on the game.".