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.".