Oregon City, OR – Long time NWAACC basketball coach Jim Worden passed away December 17, 2008 after a year long battle with cancer.

Worden, 64, coached basketball for 38 years in California and Oregon high schools and colleges, including the last 10 at Clackamas Community College, where he was the associate head coach for men’s basketball and part time PE instructor.

He leaves behind a loving family and many, many friends throughout the Northwest.

Around the NWAACC, he will be deeply missed, where his coaching legacy will be the gold standard he lived: his consistently uncompromised professionalism and his ethical model of how coaches should treat their players, and each other.

At Clackamas, the entire Cougar community will grieve his passing.