Chuck Driesell
| Chuck Driesell | |
|---|---|
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | The Citadel |
| Conference | Southern |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
c. 1963 Silver Spring, Maryland |
| Playing career | |
| 1981–1985 | Maryland |
| Position(s) | Shooting guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1985–1988 1989–1996 1997–2003 2003–2004 2004–2006 2006–2010 2010–present |
NAPS James Madison (assoc. HC) Marymount Georgetown (asst./RC) Bishop Ireton HS Maryland (asst.) The Citadel |
Chuck Driesell (born c. 1963) is an American college basketball coach and the current head coach for The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. Driesell previously served as an assistant coach under Gary Williams at the University of Maryland and spent six seasons as head coach at Marymount University. He is the son of former Maryland coach Lefty Driesell, and played for his father's team in college.
Early life and college
Driesell was born and raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, the son of college basketball coach Charles "Lefty" Driesell. As a child, Chuck was a water boy and ball boy while his father served as the long-time head basketball coach at Maryland. Lefty Driesell coach there from 1969 to 1986 and invented the "Midnight Madness" rally.[1][2]
Chuck attended the University of Maryland himself, and played on the basketball team coached by his father as a shooting guard from 1981 to 1985. Driesell participated in four postseason tournaments (one NIT and three NCAA) and was also a member of the 1984 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) championship team. Driesell received Academic All-American honors and made the ACC Honor Roll three years. He graduated in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in business marketing.[3]
Coaching career
After college, Driesell served three years in the United States Navy and attained the rank of lieutenant. He coached the Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS) from 1985 to 1988 and compiled a 40–29 record. In 1989, he joined his father, Lefty, as the associate head coach at James Madison. He coached there until 1994, and during that time, the Dukes won five consecutive outright or shared Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) regular-season championships, which was a NCAA record at the time. James Madison participated in the 1994 NCAA tournament, where they were eliminated in the first round by third-seeded Florida, an eventual semifinalist team.[3]
From 1997 to 2003, Driesell was the head coach at Marymount University, a Division III basketball team in Arlington, Virginia. In 1999, he also assumed the role of assistant athletic director. During his six-year tenure as head coach, the Saints compiled an 88–72 record, and secured the 2000 Capital Athletic Conference tournament championship and the team's first-ever bid to the NCAA Division III tournament. During the 2003–04 season, he worked at Georgetown as the Hoyas' recruiting coordinator and an assistant coach. From 2004 to 2006, he was the head coach of the Bishop Ireton High School basketball team.[3]
In 2006, Driesell was hired by Gary Williams as an assistant coach at the University of Maryland, the alma mater of both men. Williams said Driesell was hired strictly on his merits, and said, "Chuck was hired based on what he was as a basketball coach. Naturally genes don't hurt, but I wouldn't hire someone just because he is someone's son if I didn't think he was a very good basketball coach."[1] Driesell replaced Rob Moxley who left for a position at the UNC Charlotte.[4] Driesell served as Maryland's lead recruiting coordinator and was the assistant coach responsible for "advance scouting, player development, and game preparation."[3]
On April 28, 2010, Driesell was hired as head coach of The Citadel.[5][6] He replaced Ed Conroy, who had left for Tulane.[7] Since being at The Citadel, Driesell has won only 34.7 percent of his games. With four players returning who had started since their freshman years, Driesell only won ten games. The lowest amount of wins for those players since they were freshman.
Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Citadel Bulldogs (Southern Conference) (2010–2011) | |||||||||
| 2010–2011 | The Citadel | 10–22 | 6–12 | 5th (South) | |||||
| 2011–2012 | The Citadel | 6–24 | 3–15 | 6th (South) | |||||
| 2012–2013 | The Citadel | 8–22 | 5–13 | 5th (South) | |||||
| The Citadel: | 24–68 | 14–40 | |||||||
| Total: | 24–68 | ||||||||
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Eric Prisbell, C. Driesell is hired as Maryland assistant, The Washington Post, June 3, 2006.
- ↑ Lefty's midnight run started all the Madness, ESPN, October 13, 2008.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Player Bio: Chuck Driesell, University of Maryland, retrieved June 13, 2009.
- ↑ Terps hire Chuck Driesell to fill assistant coach spot, The Diamondback, June 8, 2006.
- ↑ Jeff Barker (2010-04-26). "Chuck Driesell to coach The Citadel". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2010-04-26.
- ↑ Steve Yanda (2010-04-26). "Chuck Driesell to be named head coach at The Citadel". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2010-04-26.
- ↑ Citadel hires Chuck Driesell, Sports Illustrated, April 28, 2010.
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