Dr. George W. Tinsley, PHD H, a member of the NCAA Men’s Division II Champion Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers in 1966, 1968 and 1969, is set to be inducted into the Kentucky Black Sports Hall of Fame (May 7^th) and the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame (June 8^th)  Classes of 2011. Tinsley was a two time All American at Kentucky Wesleyan and is still the all-time leader in rebounds with 1,115 and fourth in points with 2,014 leaving his mark with the team and being honored into the Kentucky Wesleyan All-Century team.

Welcome Banquet
Monday evening, May 9th
LaQuinta Inn – Coral Springs with
Keynote Speaker
George Tinsley, Sr.

The MBA is pleased to announced that George Tinsley, Sr., Past President of the National Basketball Retired Players Association and a highly successful businessman will be the keynote speaker at the MBA Welcome Barbecue this year.

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When Dr. George W. Tinsley, PHD H. was a freshman at Kentucky Wesleyan College in 1967, his team won the NCAA Men’s Division II Basketball Championship. A freshman starter, he and his team were invited on a once-in-a-lifetime trip as ambassadors of basketball, playing against club teams in Europe and Africa. The trip changed his life on several levels: (1) As an African-American growing up in Smoketown, an innercity neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky, touring Africa during the rise of the Black Power movement in the U.S. gave him a newfound appreciation of the opportunities offered by the United States; (2) being in the limelight increased his self-esteem and diminished the sting of being a poor boy growing up on food stamps and subsidized school lunches, wearing hand-me downs; (3) he discovered the woman he thought was his mother was actually the elderly baby sitter his mother had left him with when he was 7 months old and had never returned to pick up.

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Dr. George W. Tinsley, PHD H. was selected to be an honorary co-chair for the Division II NCAA Championship Festival. The event was held November 30 – December 4 in Louisville, Kentucky. The festival featured 70 teams and over 800 student athletes vying for the championship title in various sports.