“It’s been 38 years since I came back to Guam, but Guam never left me,” Stotts said. “It’s always been a part of who I am. I’m very proud to tell people that I lived on Guam […] and how important my time on Guam was to me.” 

As the son of the late former UOG basketball coach and Triton Athletics Hall of Fame member Frank Stotts, Terry L. Stotts played for the Tritons from 1973-1974 at the young age of 16 during a time when Triton athletes didn’t have to be UOG students. In the one season that he played, he was named MVP of the Guam Basketball League and led the Tritons to an undefeated season. 

Stotts went on to play and coach at the professional level in Spain, Italy, and France and nationally in the Continental Basketball Association and the National Basketball Association, recently ending a nine-year stint as head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers. Since 1992, he has also been head coach for the Atlanta Hawks and the Milwaukee Bucks and assistant coach for several teams, including the Dallas Mavericks when the team won the NBA title in 2011. 

“Basketball has given me a chance to travel around the world, get a good education, make a good living, meet some unbelievable people, but the truth is, it started here on Guam. I wouldn’t have been able to do those things if I hadn’t had the opportunity to grow as a person and as a player here in Guam,” Stotts said. 

While his father coached UOG basketball, Terry Stotts gained a foundation in the sport at Dededo Junior High and then at John F. Kennedy High School. He eventually played college basketball at the University of Oklahoma, where he was an Academic All-American selection as a junior and senior and an All-Big Eight selection his senior year. 

Stotts was among eight members inducted into the Triton Athletics Hall of Fame as the Class of 2021 on Nov. 6, 2021. His father, who coached the Tritons from 1971 to 1978, is part of the Hall of Fame Class of 2019. 

"One of the things I'm most proud of being inducted into the Hall of Fame today is that I'm going into a Hall of Fame that my dad is already in. ... What he did with Guam basketball, competing [internationally] and [...] recruiting players to come to UOG to play, to me that was the foundation of Guam basketball. And the players that played for my dad — Tony Susuico, Joe Taitano, Ben Lizama, Peter Sanchez [...] that was the golden age of basketball." 

The induction ceremony is viewable below. The Hall of Fame members and Triton Athletics history can be viewed on the Wall of Fame entering the Calvo Field House and on the Athletics Hall of Fame Conference Room in the Triton Fitness Center at the Field House.