#6Degrees January 1

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For January 2024 several of us will be participating in the “30-Day 6 Degrees of Separation Coach4aday Challenge”

Many people have heard of this concept. The notion of six degrees of separation grew out of work conducted by the social psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960s. It then became a 1993 film named appropriately “Six Degrees of Separation.”

Rules of the Challenge

Organizing a six degrees of separation challenge involves creating a chain of people, each connected to the next by a mutual acquaintance. The goal is to demonstrate that any two people in the world can be connected through a chain of six or fewer personal connections.

Here is how to participate:

1. Identify the First and Last Person in the Chain.
2. Go thru the connections with a brief explanation.
3. Do this daily for 30 Days posting on social media with the hashtag #Coach4adayChallenge

Day 1-Dan Kenney to MLK

Four Degrees of Separation-Dan Kenney-Steve Cottrell-George Raveling-Martin Luther King

1. Dan Kenney was a college basketball coach that served as an assistant coach for Steve Cottrell at Western Carolina University.
2. Steve Cottrell was an assistant basketball coach for George Raveling at Washington State University
3. George Raveling is a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame was a former basketball player at Villanova who would later go on to become the Head Basketball Coach at Iowa, USC, and Washington State. Before his coaching career at age 26 he was a volunteer security guard for the August 28, 1963 I Have a Dream Speech given by Martin Luther King in Washington DC.
4. Martin Luther King after that speech was asked by George Raveling for his speech and he gave him his copy. George Raveling still has that to this day.

Think about posting your own “6 Degrees of Separation” story. Love to read it.