Jerry Wainwright

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Jerry Wainwright
Title	Head coach
College	DePaul
Sport	Basketball
Place of birth	Berwyn, Illinois
Career Highlights
Championships
CAA Tournament Championship (2000, 2002) CAA Regular Season Championship (1998, 2002)
Awards
CAA Coach of the Year (1997, 2000)
Coaching positions
1984-1985 1985-1994 1994-2002 2002-2005 2005-present	Xavier (asst.) Wake Forest (asst.) UNC-Wilmington Richmond DePaul

Jerry Wainwright is a college men's basketball coach. He is the current head coach of the DePaul University since 2005. The Berwyn, Illinois native succeeded Dave Leitao on April 28, 2005. Formerly the head coach at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, the University of Richmond and Highland Park High School in Highland Park, Illinois. Wainwright was the head coach at the University of North Carolina Wilmington for eight seasons (1994-1995 through 2001-02). While with the Seahawks he accumulated an overall record of 136-103 (.569 winning percentage). Helping his team earn two trips to the NIT (1998 and 2001) and two trips to the NCAA Tournament (2000 and 2002), he also collected the program's first 20-win season (1998), the first NCAA Tournament berth (2000) and the first NCAA Tournament win (2002). Wainwright also led the school to two Colonial Athletic Association Tournament (CAA) championships (2000 and 2002) and two conference regular season titles (1998 and 2002).

[edit] Coaching record

School	Season	Record	Postseason
DePaul	2006-07	20-14	NIT Quarterfinals
DePaul	2005-06	12-15
Richmond	2004-05	14-15
Richmond	2003-04	20-13	NCAA First Round
Richmond	2002-03	16-13	NIT Opening Round
UNC-Wilmington	2001-02	23-10	Colonial Athletic Champs, NCAA Second Round
UNC-Wilmington	2000-01	19-11	NIT First Round
UNC-Wilmington	1999-00	18-13	Colonial Athletic Champs, NCAA First Round
UNC-Wilmington	1998-99	11-17
UNC-Wilmington	1997-98	20-11	NIT First Round
UNC-Wilmington	1996-97	16-14
UNC-Wilmington	1995-96	13-16
UNC-Wilmington	1994-95	16-11
Total	13 Seasons	218-173