Coppin State University head men’s basketball coach Michael Grant has named Stephen Stewart as an assistant on his staff. Stewart returns to his alma mater where he once served as an assistant men’s basketball coach for the Eagles during the 2001-04 seasons.
Stewart last coached at the University of Delaware from 2006-10. Prior to Delaware he was at Loyola College during the 2005-06 season and at the University of Albany in 2004-05. His coaching career began at Coppin State in 2001 underneath head coach Fang Mitchell.
Stewart is credited with helping put the Coppin State men’s basketball program on the map during the 1990’s. As a student-athlete his teams won three Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) regular-season titles, fashioned a 47-1 mark during league play and earned births to the NCAA Tournament and the National Invitational Tournament.
In 1993-1994 as a junior, Stewart was named the MEAC Player of the Year while leading Coppin State to a 16-0 conference record. He repeated the honor during the 1994-1995 season as Coppin once again won the regular season title and it’s first ever post season win with an upset victory over St. Joseph University in the National Invitational Tournament.
Stewart led a sophomore dominated squad to a 16-0 conference record and Coppin State College to its second birth into the NCAA Tournament. Currently he ranks among the top ten at Coppin State in scoring, rebounding and assists.
After graduating Stewart went on to play professionally throughout Europe and Australia. Stewart was inducted into the 2011 Class of the MEAC Hall of Fame.
He was born and raised in Philadelphia and has two other brothers that played NCAA Division I and professional basketball. (Larry Stewart at Coppin State and Lynard Stewart at Temple).
