Wendell Hudson is a retired American basketball player and former Associate Athletics Director for Alumni Relations and the former head women's basketball coach of Alabama Crimson Tide women's basketball. In 1969, Hudson signed for Alabama coach C.M. Newton and thus became the first African-American scholarship athlete in any sport at the University of Alabama. On April 22, 2013, Houston resigned after he served five seasons as head coach of the Alabama women's basketball team. He now serves in an administrative role in the athletic department. 

April 16th, 1951 in Birmingham (Age 73)