LEXINGTON, Ky. – UNC Greensboro women’s coach Trina Patterson and Chattanooga men’s coach Lamont Paris earned spots on the inaugural Achieving Coaching Excellence® College Basketball Coaching Honor Roll, the organization announced Monday.

The Coaching Honor Roll recognizes leaders in women’s and men’s college basketball that demonstrate tenets of coaching excellence that include on and off the court performance, community involvement, and serving as champions for college basketball, their coaching peers and the coaching profession.

South Carolina’s Dawn Staley and Florida State’s Leonard Hamilton were named the Head of the Class coaches for the women and men, respectively.

Patterson earned SoCon Coach of the Year honors from her peers and the league’s media this year, leading the Spartans to a 23-9 overall record and a 10-4 league mark to claim a share of the regular-season SoCon title. She coached senior guard Nadine Soliman to SoCon Player of the Year honors and led the Spartans to the title game of the Ingles SoCon Basketball Championship presented by General Shale.

Paris led the Mocs to their 25th 20-win campaign with a 20-13 record. Matt Ryan (second team) and Ramon Vila (third team) made the All-Southern Conference squad as the team had the largest wins improvement (8) since the 1997 NCAA Sweet 16 team’s nine.

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Women’s College Basketball Honor Roll
Amaka Aguga-Hamilton, Missouri State University
Adia Barnes, University of Arizona
Vanessa Blair-Lewis, Bethune Cookman University
Michelle Clark-Heard, University of Cincinnati
Kevin Herod, Talladega College
Ravon Justice, Sam Houston State University
Serena King-Coleman, Fayetteville State University
Trina Patterson, UNC Greensboro
Tomekia Reed, Jackson State University
James Rice, Benedict College
Dawn Staley, University of South Carolina Head of the Class)
Jaida Williams, Coastal Carolina University
 
Men’s College Basketball Honor Roll
Anthony Grant, University of Dayton
Leonard Hamilton, Florida State University (Head of the Class)
Michael “Mike” Jones, Radford University
Willie Jones, North Carolina A&T State University*
James F. Jones, Yale University
Ritchie McKay, Liberty University
LeVelle Moton, North Carolina Central University
Lamont Paris, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Byron Smith, Prairie View A&M University
Damon Stoudamire, University of Pacific
Darrell Walker, University of Arkansas-Little Rock
Alfred Williams, Xavier University-Louisiana
*named Acting Head Coach on 12/24/19