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RIO DE JANEIRO — A man from Cabot, Vt., who grew up playing basketball on a hoop in a barn behind his house and became the head coach of the Nigerian men’s national basketball team is an interesting story by itself.
But those are a just a few interesting details among many of Will Voigt’s global journey from rural Vermont to the Rio Olympics.
The son of a Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry and MacArthur genius (his mom Ellen) and founder of a culinary school (his dad Fran), Voigt has coached in Norway, Denver, Austin, Texas, Bakersfield, Calif.