Miles Leathers has been elevated to Associate Head Coach for the Brevard College men’s basketball program, announced Head Coach Lee Burgess. The promotion arrives following the completion of Leathers’ third season as Assistant Coach for the Tornados.
“We are so thankful for the contributions that Coach Leathers has made to our program,” said Burgess. “This promotion is well earned and deserved. Coach Leathers has his fingerprints all over this program, and we are very excited to recognize the impact he has made.”
In the recently completed 2021-22 season, Leathers assisted Burgess in guiding BC to its first-ever USA South Conference Tournament and the program’s first trip to postseason play since 2014-15. The Tornados finished the season with the program’s most single-season victories since 2015 with thrilling wins over conference foes Berea and Piedmont highlighting the memorable year. Individually, sophomore LB Boyette (Second Team West Division) and senior Hayden Cassell (All-Sportsmanship Team) were honored with USA South Conference postseason awards.
“I’m extremely excited about this opportunity and the future of the program,” said Leathers. “Our goal as a coaching staff is to continue to improve each year. I would like to thank Coach Burgess, and would like to acknowledge all of our players, past and present. We greatly appreciate you.”
Leathers arrived at Brevard in 2019 after serving as the Associate Head Coach for the NC Raptors AAU basketball program and the Warren County High School Men’s Basketball team in Warrenton, North Carolina.
An alumnus of Brevard College who set several records as a Tornado student-athlete, Leathers is the only player to surpass the marks of 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 250 assists and 100 steals at Brevard College. A four-year starter at Brevard playing under Coach Burgess, Leathers owns the school’s NCAA-era records in career assists (252), career steals (170), career total rebounds (tied, 596), career defensive rebounds (476) and single-season defensive rebounds (166, 2015-16) while ranking second in career points (1,265), games played (99), games started (91), field goals made (441) and free throws made (292).
A team co-captain and co-MVP of the 2015-16 Brevard College Men’s Basketball team, Leathers was named BC’s Male Athlete of the Year as a senior. An All-SAC Conference preseason selection in 2015-16, Leathers also won the BC’s Defensive Most Valuable Player of the Year Award in 2012-13.
Active in community service as a student-athlete, Leathers completed an internship as a counselor with the Cindy Platt Boys & Girls Club of Transylvania County in his final semester prior to graduating from Brevard College.
Following graduation in the summer of 2016, Leathers earned a spot on the USA Select Tour team where he played in England, Ireland and Norway. He followed that experience, along with experience with the Washington Elementary Boys and Girls Club in Raleigh, North Carolina, with the start of his coaching career at Warren Country High School and with the NC Raptors AAU team.
A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, Leathers is a 2016 graduate of Brevard College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Exercise Science.
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