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Bulldogs to Bulldogs: How a Division I Basketball Coach Found a Home at Dunbar

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“I don’t feel like I’ve ever been to work,” Paul Laurence Dunbar’s new head basketball coach Murray Garvin said. “I wake up and I go to my passion and I believe that should be the goal for all of us.”

Garvin, a Pikeville native, has returned to Lexington after 20 years of coaching in the college ranks before he settled down and found a home this past spring at Lexington’s Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. It was a necessary journey.

Now that he’s once again coaching at the high school level, Garvin can focus on what’s most important to him—being a mentor to the young men that play under him.