WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV (LOOTPRESS) – Hall of Fame and National Champion basketball coach Roy Williams has agreed to host and deliver the keynote speech at the third annual GameChanger Prevention Education Golf Classic Dinner at the Greenbrier Resort.
Williams, who enjoyed a sparkling coaching career at college basketball shrines in Kansas and North Carolina, joins a lofty list of past speakers at the GameChanger Event.
He follows Alabama Coach Nick Saban and his wife Terry, who appeared at the Inaugural Classic in 2021, and country music sensation Brad Paisley, who delivered last year’s keynote.
Williams guided Kansas to the NCAA national championship games in both 1991 and 2003 and led North Carolina to three NCAA basketball championships in 2005, 2009, and 2017.
The legendary coach says he is eagerly looking forward to becoming a part of the GameChanger initiative. “I hope I can help GameChanger address what is obviously a crisis in our country. Substance misuse is killing our kids and destroying our families and communities,” Williams said.
“I consider it an honor to follow such fantastic people as Nick and Terry Saban and Brad Paisley and I am committed to helping GameChanger in any way I can.”
GameChanger Executive Director and Founder Joe Boczek is obviously elated that Williams will helm the GameChanger event.
“GameChanger has been truly blessed in just its fourth year of existence. Through the help of so many people from so many walks of life, we believe we are truly going to save lives. Having a legend like Coach Williams on the heels of our terrific hosts the last two years in Nick and Terry Saban and Brad Paisley speaks volumes to the credibility our Prevention Education Programs have attained.”
The third annual GameChanger event is slated to begin with a reception and dinner featuring Coach Williams on Wednesday, May 24, and a Golfer’s Breakfast and Celebrity Golf Scramble slated to start at 9 AM on Thursday, May 25.
In its first two years, the GameChanger Golf Classic has raised more than $800,000 for prevention education in West Virginia schools. GameChanger programs are also working to address the deadly fentanyl crisis that is responsible for taking a record number of young lives in West Virginia and across America.
