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The ninth annual Mercer Basketball Coach Clinic, featuring Mercer head coach Bob Hoffman, University of Alabama Huntsville head coach Lennie Acuff and former professional basketball player and current Stetson head coach Corey Williams, has been set for Sunday, Oct. 1 at Hawkins Arena. This year’s event will run from 1-6 p.m. and includes a T-shirt and clinic
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Jesse Nakanishi has joined the Seattle University men’s basketball staff as the director of operations, Head Coach Jim Hayford announced Monday. Nakanishi joins the Redhawks’ staff from Hawaii Pacific University, where he served on the coaching staff from 2011-17. “Jesse is a great addition to our staff after being an integral part of the successes
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Goshen College has named Jon Tropf the interim head coach of its men’s basketball program, the Maple Leafs announced Monday. Tropf, a Maple Leaf assistant for the past three seasons who was promoted to associate head coach in 2016, is a 2012 graduate of Eastern Michigan University who spent two seasons as a graduate manager at Oakland
Nick Rocco has been named as an assistant coach for the Lewis University men’s basketball team. Rocco comes to Lewis after spending the last four seasons as an assistant to legendary prep basketball coach Gene Pingatore at St. Joseph’s in Westchester, Ill. During his tenure, St. Joseph’s won two Chicago Catholic League championships, three regional
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After a national search of candidates, the Covenant men’s basketball program has a new head coach as director of athletics Tim Sceggel has named Neal Young the 16th head coach in program history. Young comes to Covenant after spending the last four years as head coach at Goshen (Ind.) College. In addition to his head coaching
The College of Staten Island men’s basketball program has announced the hiring of J.C. Albano as its new assistant coach. Albano will take over a vacated assistant position, and will join new head coach T.J. Tibbs and current assistant Nicholas Doran. Alongside Albano’s appointment, Tibbs has added Abe Akanmu and Orin McKay, Jr., to his staff
Head men’s basketball coach Dave Balza has added two graduate assistants to his staff for the 2017-18 basketball season, as Evan Sizemore and Matt Brunjes will join the Sailfish this fall. Sizemore graduated cum laude with honors from The Ohio State University in the spring of 2017, earning a bachelor’s of science in education. During
You are cordially invited to the Second Annual Basketball Coaches Clinic: Presented by Adams Street Academy. On Monday October 9th, come to St. Thomas Aquinas and learn from some of the best coaches in the area as they share plays, drills, and player development ideas. The clinic will include: On court demonstrations, question and answer
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After one season, Dana Barros has elected to not return as the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Newbury College for the 2017-2018 campaign. The Nighthawks registered a 3-21 overall record and a 3-12 New England Collegiate Conference mark a season ago. Barros cited his time-demanding commitments including the Fall 2017 opening of the new Dana
Matt Warren enters his first season as an assistant coach at Warner University. Coach Warren has a wide range of experience at multiple levels of basketball. Warren joins the Royals after severing as the General Manager of Combine Academy of Orlando, Fla., a post graduate basketball academy. While at Combine Academy, Coach Warren sent a
In this episode of ‘The Coach’s Insight’, Coach Chris Martin, Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Loras College, discusses his keys to turning a program around in your 1st season on the job. View past Episodes of The Coach’s Insight: Episode 1: HoopDirt.com’s DirtKing Adam Nelson Episode 2: Cal State Fullerton Associate Head Coach John Smith Episode 3:
Truett McConnell University Head Men’s Basketball Jon Yeh announces Lyle Jones as the new assistant men’s coach for the upcoming 2017-18 season. Lyle Jones begins his first season as Truett McConnell’s Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach. Jones arrived to Cleveland fresh off a two year graduate assistant position at East Carolina University (ECU) in the powerful
