The Winston-Salem State household ties proceed to strengthen, with one other son of the lads’s basketball program taking on for one more.
Per Chris Stiles of The Robesonian, Corey Thompson, who performed at WSSU from 1998 to 2002, was introduced as we speak because the Rams’ new males’s basketball coach, changing Cleo Hill Jr., who moved as much as NCAA D1 Maryland-Jap Shore earlier this summer season.
Hill, son of the late, nice Winston-Salem State legend and former NBA participant Cleo Hill, led Winston-Salem to 2 CIAA championships and two NCAA Division II match appearances in six seasons on the job. Steven J. Collect of HBCU Gameday reported Monday that Thompson was the college’s alternative to switch Hill.
We want to introduce you to our new head males’s basketball coach, Corey Thompson! #GORams pic.twitter.com/fnXVRD3xHw
— WSSU Athletics (@WSSU_Athletics) July 9, 2024
WSSU Athletics on X: “We want to introduce you to our new head males’s basketball coach, Corey Thompson! #GORams
Thompson’s most up-to-date job was as head boys’ basketball coach at St. Pauls Excessive College, the place he compiled a 139-72 file general, with a number of journeys to the North Carolina playoffs. He served as an assistant coach at UNC-Pembroke and CIAA rival Fayetteville State previous to taking the St. Pauls job.
“It’s been a whole lot of sleepless nights, pinching myself and saying, ‘Is that this really actual,’ are we going again house?” Thompson mentioned at his introductory press convention. “And I’m so delighted to be the brand new males’s basketball coach. It’s an incredible day to be a Ram.”
WSSU athletic director Etienne Thomas mentioned “That’s what I used to be on the lookout for, that individual that can proceed to graduate champions at WSSU. A companion, somebody who can see past males’s basketball and see the establishment, the academy of who we’re. Somebody who can recognize the legacy and historical past right here. We had many candidates within the pool, many he had a narrative to inform, however you already know it if you hear it, you already know it if you see it.”
