New Grambling State head basketball coach Patrick Crarey III has hired Chris Dorsey as the associate head coach, Desmin Wade as the General Manager and assistant coach, and Aaron Proctor as an assistant coach.
“Coach Dorsey is one of the best basketball minds in all of college basketball,” said Crarey. “His ability to teach players and coaches, is unmatched. For the last 8 years he has been a championship winning collegiate head coach in the state of Louisiana, he will help us with recruiting and relationships in our home state. We are very excited to welcome Coach Dorsey and his family to Grambling.”
Dorsey enters his first season at GSU with over a decade of collegiate head coaching experience. Across 11 seasons, Dorsey has consistently built winning cultures and delivered championship-level results at every stop.
Most recently, Dorsey spent eight seasons as the head coach at Centenary College, where he became the winningest coach in the school’s NCAA Division III era. He surpassed 100 career wins and led the Gents to their first conference championship in over 40 years in 2020, then captured a second SCAC title in 2024—making him the only coach in program history with multiple championships. His teams earned NCAA Tournament bids in both title seasons and reached five consecutive SCAC Final Fours.
Under his leadership, Centenary produced at least one All-Conference player every season—25 total—along with one SCAC Player of the Year and two SCAC Rookies of the Year. His teams posted a dominant 76% home winning percentage from 2020–2024 (51–16), and he engineered two of the longest winning streaks in school history (10 games each). Dorsey was named SCAC Coach of the Year in 2020.
Before Centenary, Dorsey was the Head Coach at his alma mater, Lyndon State College, from 2014 to 2017. He guided the program to two North Atlantic Conference (NAC) semifinal appearances (2015 and 2017), while producing one NAC Player of the Year, two Rookies of the Year, and five All-Conference selections.
From 2008 to 2012, Dorsey served as Associate Head Coach at Daniel Webster College. He helped lead the team to a single-season record 21 wins while directing an offense that led the conference in field goal percentage, three-point percentage, and overall offensive efficiency.
Dorsey currently resides in Shreveport, Louisiana, with his wife, Morgan, and their three children. Morgan serves as the head women’s soccer coach at Centenary College.
Desmin Wade
Wade comes to Grambling State after leading James Hubert Blake High School to a 91-35 record. During the 5 year tenure they won 4 Division Championships, a County Championship, with 5 Regional Championship appearances.
Wade led the Bengals to a 19-1 regular season record in 2024-2025 (tied for the best record in the state of Maryland). The Bengals finished top 25 in the Washington Post All Met Sports ranking. The Bengals regular season success led to Wade being named James Hubert Blake Coach of the Year. Blake saw the nation’s top ranked player in the sophomore class according to ESPN, Baba Oladotun, become the first basketball student athlete to be selected First Team All-Met in school history.
Prior to his tenure at Blake, Wade served as the head coach at High Point High School, where he led the team to its first regional final in over 15 years during the 2018–19 season.
Before High Point, Wade spent three seasons at Washington Adventist University (WAU) in Takoma Park, Maryland. One year as a graduate assistant earning his master’s degree and two years as Defensive Coordinator/ Director of Basketball Operations. In 2014, the Shock was able to capture a National Championship.
Wade is a native of Forestville, Maryland, and played guard at WAU for two seasons. Before that, he played at Montgomery College Germantown, ranked 4th in the junior college rankings in 2008.
“Coach Proctor brings extensive experience, having coached on the Division 1 level for the past 5 season,” said Crarey. “Having worked for great head coaches he will bring a level of organization and professionalism we seek to mirror. A native of Houston he has great recruiting ties to the state of Texas. We welcome Coach Proctor and his family to Grambling.”
Proctor joins GSU after spending the past two seasons at Texas State University as the program’s Director of Basketball Operations.
Prior to Texas State, he served in the same role at Lamar University from 2021-2023, and he also spent the 2020-21 campaign in the same role at Southeast Missouri State.
Overall, Proctor brings 20 years of coaching experience to the Tigers, including four years as a head coach at the high school level and two stints as an AAU head coach.
During the 2019-2020 season. Proctor served as an assistant at Missouri State-West Plains after spending the 2018-19 campaign at Arkansas-Fort Smith. He joined the Lions after a one-year stint as the head coach of North Forest High School in Houston. His time at North Forest was one of three high school head coaching jobs which also included stops at Heights High School and Alvin High School.
For two years, Proctor served on staff at Kansas State as a graduate assistant coach. During his time with the Wildcats, they recorded 38 wins – including a 20-win season in 2016-17 – and advanced to the 2017 NCAA Tournament where KSU defeated Wake Forest in its first-round game.
A native of Houston, Proctor attended Cal State-San Bernardino where he played one season for head coach Jeff Olivier. During that season (2004-05), Proctor helped lead the Coyotes to a 21-6 record and captured the California Collegiate Athletic Association title and earned a trip to the NCAA Tournament.
He graduated from CSUSB with a bachelor’s degree in 2006. Following graduation, Proctor went on to teach at the high school level before returning to college to receive his master’s degree from Kansas State in 2017.
Proctor and his wife, Ashford, have a daughter, Harper.
