First-year head men’s basketball coach Shawn Postiglione has filled out his coaching staff with the hiring of assistant coach Brad Riester.
A 2014 graduate of the University of Mary Washington, Reister was a standout player for the Eagles during his career. He was a three-time All-Capital Athletic Conference selection and served as team captain from 2012-14. He helped lead Mary Washington to the CAC Championship in 2014 and a trip to the NCAA tournament where the Eagles advanced to the Elite Eight. He led the conference in scoring as a senior and was named the UMW Male Athlete of the Year. He finished his playing career with more than 1,500 points.
Riester was most recently an assistant coach with the boys’ basketball team at Monacan High School in Richmond.
Riester succeeds Evan Kee as a member of the Eagles’ staff. Kee recently left the part-time assistant coaching position here at Bridgewater to take a full-time position on the staff at Keuka College, a Division III program in upstate New York.
Postiglione also added two more assistants to his staff – former Bridgewater standout Clay Michael and Sean Jones.
Michael graduated from Bridgewater College in 2006 with a degree in History & Political Science. On the hardwood, he was a two-time All-ODAC selection and was the conference’s men’s basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2005 and 2006. Michael finished his four-year career at BC with 1,078 points and 744 rebounds. He ranks No. 28 in career points and seventh in career rebounds at Bridgewater.
He spent the past three season as a volunteer assistant coach in the men’s basketball program at Shenandoah University.
Jones served as a practice player with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s basketball program under former UTC and current N.C. State head coach Wes Moore. He has also served as a camp coach at the University of Memphis, UTC, and Milligan College.
Jones earned his bachelor’s degree in communications from UTC in 2013 and is currently working toward his master’s degree in Sports and Recreation Leadership at James Madison University.
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