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UNK John Trivette

Name
John Trivette
Position
Forward
Class
Sophomore
Hometown (Last School)
Pikeville, KY (Pikeville College Academy)
Ht
6'0"
Wt
165
Seasons
1937-38
Birthday
February 10, 1917

John Trivette was born John William Trivette on February 10, 1917, in Pikeville, Kentucky to Thelma Cline Trivette and William Sidney Trivette.  He was known as “John Bill.”

Trivette lettered in both baseball and basketball at Kentucky. He was a member of the frosh squad in 1936-37 and the varsity squad as a sophomore in 1937-38, when Kentucky basketball won the Sugar Bowl championship.

Trivette coached the Pikeville Panthers from 1944 to 1960, amassing a 427-126 record. But perhaps his biggest contribution to the game was his use of his so-called “diamond press.”

“That was new to basketball – period,” Brooks Downing, sports information director for the Kentucky High School Athletics Association, said Monday. “We’re under the impression that that was the first time that anyone did anything but a man-to-man. It was evolutionary.”

During his career, Trivette led his teams to seven regional championships and 14 district titles. The Louisville Courier-Journal named Trivette coach of the year in 1957, when his team finished third in the state tournament after being ranked No. 1 much of the season.

Trivette is a member of the KHSAA Sweet 16 and Pikeville High School Hall of Fame.

He was also a charter inductee of the Dawahare’s KHSAA Hall of Fame in 1988.

Trivette passed away on January 3, 1993 at the age of 75.

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