[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 99 (Thursday, June 9, 2022)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E604-E605]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        HONORING MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

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                          HON. DAVID E. PRICE

                           of north carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, June 9, 2022

  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. Madam Speaker, I rise today to 
congratulate Coach Mike Krzyzewski of Duke University on his 
retirement. Blue Devils everywhere are proud of his remarkable legacy, 
a historic career that has seen Coach Krzyzewski win five national 
titles and five Olympic gold medals.
  I previously taught at Duke and have represented the campus and 
Durham for a number of years. I know firsthand of Mike Krzyzewski's 
character and integrity. He is not only a world-class coach; he is also 
a committed educator who has trained and inspired his players to 
succeed in whatever they undertake in life. Over his career, his 
players earned a combined 81 All-ACC Academic Team honors.
  A native of Chicago, Coach Krzyzewski, affectionately known as 
``Coach K,'' began his 46 year-long coaching career at the United 
States Military Academy before becoming the longtime coach at Duke. 
Over his 42 years as their head coach, he garnered three Naismith Hall 
of Fame Coach Awards, 15 ACC championships, 13 Final Four appearances, 
and five NCAA Division I national championships.
  Coach Mike Krzyzewski's 1,000th career victory came on a Sunday 
afternoon in New York City at Madison Square Garden against the Red 
Storm of St. John's University, surpassing his former Coach Bob Knight 
and establishing himself as the winningest coach in basketball history 
and becoming the first head coach with a four-figure win total.
  With 1,129 of Duke's 2,246 all-time victories coming under Coach K, 
he holds claim to the NCAA record for most wins by a coach at one 
school and has presided over more than half of all Duke men's 
basketball victories. Coach K is a five-time Olympic gold medal 
winner--in 1984 and 1992 as Team USA's assistant coach, and in 2008, 
2012, and 2016 as its head coach. Krzyzewski has consistently made 
history by winning.
  Mike Krzyzewski's accomplishments are impressive by any measure. 
Equally as impressive, though, is his work off the basketball court and 
commitment to his local community.
  I am proud to have collaborated directly with Coach K, and his wife 
Mickie, in securing federal support for what became the Emily 
Krzyzewski Family Life Center, which opened in Durham in 2006. Named 
after his mother,

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the Center has helped to revitalize Durham's West End neighborhood and 
provide a safe and positive environment for disadvantaged children and 
families from the community. Its educational programs are unusually 
intensive, taking students from elementary school through college and 
equipping them with skills to successfully complete higher education, 
connect to promising careers, and become agents of change in their 
communities.
  Beyond the Center, Coach K has been active in the Jimmy V Foundation 
for Cancer Research, named after his long-time friend and North 
Carolina State University Coach, Jim Valvano, Duke Children's Hospital, 
the Brain Tumor Center at Duke, and many other endeavors that have 
strengthened the community.
  Over the course of his career, Coach K built a legacy that few in the 
history of basketball can compare with--his career is nothing short of 
astonishing. On behalf of Duke University and basketball fans 
everywhere, I ask all of my colleagues to join me in congratulating 
Coach Mike Krzyzewski on his historic career and to wish Mike, Mickie, 
and the rest of the Krzyzewski family all the best on their next 
journey.

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