SAN FRANCISCO — Former San Francisco State men's basketball head coach Jerry Waugh passed away in September at his home in Wichita.

Waugh coached the Gators for two seasons, from 1970-72, and posted a 34-19 record over those two seasons. The Golden Gators were the 1970-71 Far Western Conference champions and played in the NCAA West Regional. The following season, Waugh led the Gators to a Co-FWC championship.

Waugh graduated from Wellington High School in 1945, then went on to serve 18 months in the United States Army before attending KU. The Wellington, Kansas, native was a standout guard, was the team's only non-senior starter as a sophomore, helped lead the Jayhawks to a conference championship as a junior, and was named team captain in his senior season. In 1956, he returned to Kansas as an assistant basketball coach for Dick Harp until 1960. During that time, he pulled double duty as he was also the men's golf coach from 1958 to 1959. He left KU in 1960, but returned to his alma mater in 1974 to serve as an assistant athletic director where he worked with Olympic sports. Waugh also made basketball coaching stops at Arizona and Chico State.

Waugh was inducted into the Kansas Golf Hall of Fame in 1998, Kansas Athletics Hall of Fame in 2000, the Wellington Crusader Wall of Recognition in 2013, and the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in 2017.

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