Jamion Christian

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Jamion Christian
Sport(s)	Basketball
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Mount St. Mary’s
Record	9–12
Biographical details
Born	(1982-04-18) April 18, 1982 Quinton, VA
Playing career
2000–2003	Mount St. Mary’s
Position(s)	Guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2004–2006 2006–2008 2008–2011 2011–2012 2012–present	Emory and Henry (assistant) Bucknell (basketball operations) William & Mary (assistant) VCU (assistant) Mount St. Mary’s
Head coaching record
Overall	27–26

Jamion Christian (born April 18, 1982)^[1] is an American college basketball coach. He is the current and 22^nd head coach of men’s basketball at Mount St. Mary's University.^[2]

Biography

Christian was born and raised in Quinton, Virginia. As a shooting guard, he led New Kent High School to a Virginia High School League State Championship with a 26–0 record and earned the VHSL Group A State Player of the Year honors. Christian then became a shooting guard and a three-year captain for Mount St. Mary's under head coaches Jim Phelan and Milan Brown.

Assistant coaching career

Christian began his coaching career as an assistant at Emory and Henry College (2004–06), Bucknell (2006–08), and William & Mary (2008–11). Christian then served as an assistant at Virginia Commonwealth (2011–12) under head coach Shaka Smart, helping the Rams to the third round of the 2012 NCAA tournament.

Head coaching career

Mount St. Mary's hired Christian as head coach on March 26, 2012. Christian implemented an up-tempo offense and “mayhem” defense, comparable to VCU's "havoc" defense popularized by Shaka Smart. During the 2012-13 season, the Mountaineers qualified for the NEC Tournament for the first time since the 2009–10 season. As a No. 5 seed, Mount St. Mary's upset Bryant and Robert Morris, but lost to Long Island University in the championship game.^[3]

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers (Northeast Conference) (2012–present)
2012–13	Mount St. Mary's	18–14	11–7	T–5th
2013–14	Mount St. Mary's	9–12	5-3	T–3rd
Mount St. Mary's:		27–26	16-10
Total:		27–26
National champion Conference regular season champion Conference tournament champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Conference division champion

References

Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers men's basketball head coaches

William Walsh (1908–1909)
Al Barrett (1909–1910)
Francis Liddy (1910–1911)
Mike Thompson (1911–1913)
John Day (1913–1917)
Mike Thompson (1917–1920)
Charles Dickerman (1920–1921)
John Sheridan (1921–1923)
Walter Halas (1923–1924)
Art Malloy (1924–1935)
Joe Lawler (1935–1937)
Joseph McCormick (1937–1938)
Art Malloy (1938–1941)
Wally Opekun (1941–1942)
No team (1942–1943)
Wally Opekun (1943–1947)
Steve Filipowicz (1947–1948)
Wally Opekun # (1948)
Michael Kennedy (1948–1949)
John McMahon (1949–1950)
Pete Caruso (1950–1951)
Bill Clark (1951–1954)
Jim Phelan (1954–2003)
Milan Brown (2003–2010)
Robert Burke (2010–2012)
Matt Henry # (2012)
Jamion Christian (2012– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

v t e Current men's basketball head coaches of the Northeast Conference

Tim O'Shea (Bryant) Howie Dickenman (Central Connecticut) Greg Herenda (Fairleigh Dickinson) Jack Perri (LIU Brooklyn) Jamion Christian (Mount St. Mary's) Andrew Toole (Robert Morris) Anthony Latina (Sacred Heart) Rob Krimmel (Saint Francis (PA)) Glenn Braica (St. Francis Brooklyn) Bashir Mason (Wagner)

Persondata
Name	Christian, Jamion
Alternative names
Short description	American college basketball coach
Date of birth	April 18, 1982
Place of birth	Quinton, Virginia
Date of death
Place of death

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