Despite his successful coaching career that would require him to be away from his family, his Italian upbringing provided the strong foundation from which Jimmy V could live out his aspirations. He would go on to marry his high school sweetheart, and be a loving father to three daughters. Jimmy was born in Corona, Queens, New York to a middle class family. Jimmy V is a true underdog in the way his team won a championships it had no business winning, and in the way he fought cancer with bravery, dignity, and class.
In 2011, these three scholars published a Situation-Based Taxonomy of Heroes. Jimmy V can be identified as the classic, odds beater/underdog by three heroism scientists named Zeno Franco, Kathy Blau, and Phil Zimbardo. However, when delving deeper into the various taxonomies and exploring the definition of heroism, I have been able to identify that it is the classic come-from-behind story: someone who once walked among us, as an ordinary person, accomplishing what was deemed impossible.
Since I was little, Jimmy V has been my hero simply because his North Carolina State Wolfpack Men’s Basketball team is the greatest underdog story of all time.
On that card, he wrote that he would play college basketball, become a head coach, win a game in Madison Square Garden and, finally, cut down the nets after winning a National Championship.Īt age thirty-six, Jim Valvano could take that crumpled index card out of his pocket and cross off everything on the list. When James “Jimmy V” Valvano was seventeen years old, he wrote down his dreams on an index card.
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