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Doug Key, a native of Carbon Hill, Ala., was a four-year letterman in basketball for the Lions from 1962-65. He is a member of the 1,000-Point career scoring club with 1,254 points, and he led the Lions in scoring two straight years with 544 points in 1964 and 441 in 1965. Key scored over 30 points in a single game six times, with a career high of 37 points against Lambuth in 1965. He is one of only six people to score over 500 points in a single season for the Lions.
He graduated from UNA in 1965 with a degree in Health and Physical Education and then coached one season at Hackleburg High School before returning home to Carbon Hill to coach three years. He later coached the freshman basketball team at the University of South Alabama for two years before serving a three-year stint as basketball coach at Marion Institute. In 1975 he was named as the first head basketball coach at Chattahoochee Valley Community College, where he would coach for 22 years, posting 513 wins and taking four of his teams to the National Junior College Athletic Association National Tournament.
He closed his career with the best winning percentage of any Alabama Junior College basketball coach. Upon his retirement from Chattahoochee Valley in August of 1996, the school renamed its basketball facility in his honor - the Doug Key Health and Physical Education Building.
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