GEORGE UNSELD
UNSELD, GEORGE
Hometown: Louisville, KY (Seneca HS)
| CATEGORY |
TOTAL |
|
1963 |
1964 |
| YEAR |
|
|
So. |
Jr. |
| POSITION |
|
|
C/F |
C/F |
| HEIGHT |
|
|
6'7 |
6'7 |
| WEIGHT |
|
|
210 |
225 |
| JERSEY |
|
|
|
|
| Games Played/Started |
50/ |
|
25/ |
25/ |
| Points |
892 |
|
432 |
460 |
| Per Game |
17.8 |
|
17.2 |
18.4 |
| Rebounds |
383 |
|
199 |
184 |
| Per Game |
7.7 |
|
8.0 |
7.4 |
| FG: Attempts |
709 |
|
370 |
339 |
| Made |
352 |
|
166 |
186 |
| Percent |
49.6 |
|
44.8 |
46.6 |
| FT: Attempts |
322 |
|
158 |
164 |
| Made |
188 |
|
100 |
88 |
| Percent |
58.4 |
|
63.2 |
53.6 |
| Production Points/Game |
|
|
|
|
| Production Points/Minute |
|
|
|
|
1963: Lettered, Starter
1964: Lettered, Starter, All Big 8
|
Pro career:
|
1963-64
|
|
Los Angeles Stars (ABA)
|
Drafted in 8th round, 1965 NBA draft, by LA
Lakers
http://www.louky.org/fp/newcouncil/06/
George Unseld was elected to the first Louisville Metro Council
in November 2002. He was relected to a full four year term in November of 2004.
Previously, he represented the city’s Tenth Ward on the Board of Aldermen,
beginning in January 1999.
He represents the neighborhoods of Algonquin, California, Limerick, Old
Louisville,Park Hill, Russell, St. Joseph, Shelby Park, Smoketown-Jackson,
Taylor-Berry, University, and the Central Business District.
He is currently a member of the Metro Council's Buget, Contracts & Appointments
and Minority Affairs Committees.
A longtime educator, Councilman Unseld has held both administrative and teaching
positions within the Jefferson County Public Schools. He earned his master’s
degree in education and his Rank I from Western Kentucky University.
He is a member and former director of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People; former director of the Salvation Army Newburg
Boys and Girls Club; and a member of the Greater Louisville Alliance of Black
School Educators.
Unseld has received numerous awards including the Lincoln Foundation Community
Service Award in 1996, and was given the Newburg Achiever Award in 1992. In 1994
he received the Evelyn Waldrop Awarded for Martin Luther King Day from Jefferson
County government, and in 1991 was presented with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Award for outstanding community service from the Louisville chapter of P.U.S.H.
