• New Orleanian, Brother Martin High School alum
• XULA athlete (men's basketball, 1971-75) and head coach in men's and women's basketball
• Record as a college head coach:
Seasons W L Pct
XULA women 6 (1977-78, 1979-84) 88 67 .568
XULA men 12 (1990-2002) 234 136 .632
SUNO men 9 (2008-17) 88 149 .371
TOTALS 27 seasons 410 352 .538
• Two-time Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Coach of the Year: 1990-91 and 2000-01 (shared)
• First from XULA men's basketball to be chosen Louisiana Small College Coach of the Year by the Louisiana Association of Basketball Coaches (2000-01)
• GCAC/NAIA District 30 Tournament championships as a head coach: 5 (XULA women 1980-81, 1981-82, XULA men 1990-91 and 1995-96, SUNO men 2011-12)
• At age 25 he coached XULA's first women's basketball team of the Title IX era
• In his final NAIA national tournament appearance (2012), he coached SUNO's men to the second round after opening with a
come-from-behind 94-92 overtime victory against No. 3 overall seed Robert Morris (Chicago) . . . SUNO trailed by 11 with nine minutes remaining in regulation
• Set Gold Rush record with six consecutive 20-win seasons (1990-96) . . . His successor, Dannton Jackson, tied that record
• Broke XULA men's basketball record for career coaching victories in 2002 and held that mark for 11 years
• His 1980-81 Gold Nuggets were 22-5, including 12 victories against teams that now play in NCAA Division I: two victories
apiece against Louisiana-Lafayette, Nicholls, North Texas and Tulane, one victory apiece against Alcorn State, Oakland, Southeastern Louisiana and Southern
• Was an assistant coach at Southern and Grambling during the 1980s under Bob Hopkins, who coached Valdery at XULA
• As a player, Valdery was a starter for Brother Martin teams that won state championships in the LHSAA's highest classification in
1970 and 1971 . . . then he helped XULA win NAIA District 30 titles in 1972 and 1973
• His best XULA statistics as a player were from his senior season (1974-75): 9.9 points per game, second on the team with 105 assists
