Damon Stoudamire
Damon Stoudamire (born September 3, 1973)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Current conference: Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC)
Pacific record: 71-77 (.480)
Georgia Tech record: 14-18 (.438)
Overall record: 85-95 (.472)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- ACC Regular Season Champion: 0
- ACC Tournament Champion: 0
Awards:
- Ben Jobe Award: 1 (2020)
- Pac-10 Player of the Year: 1 (1995)
- AP All-American: 1 (1995)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2023-present | Georgia Tech |
| 2021-2023 | Boston Celtics (asst) |
| 2016-2021 | Pacific |
| 2015-2016 | Memphis (asst) |
| 2013-2015 | Arizona (asst) |
| 2011-2013 | Memphis (asst) |
| 2009-2011 | Memphis Grizzlies (asst) |
| 2008-2009 | Rice (DPD) |
Damon Stoudamire Facts
- Damon Lamon Stoudamire
- Born September 3, 1973
- Hometown: Portland, Oregon
- Alma Mater: University of Arizona (2008)
- Attended Woodrow Wilson HS (OR); named Oregon Player of the Year and was later inducted into the Oregon Sports HOF
- Played point guard for four seasons with the Arizona Wildcats under Hall of Fame head coach Lute Olson
- Named 1995 Pac-10 POY, earned All-Pac 10 First Team honors three times and was a First-Team AP All-American
- Drafted #7 overall in the 1995 NBA Draft by the Toronto Raptors (the team’s first ever draft pick); was NBA Rookie of the Year
- Played for four NBA teams over 13-years; played for a number of head coaches, including Brendan Malone, Darrell Walker, Butch Carter, Mike Dunleavy, Maurice Cheeks, Mike Fratello, Tony Barone, Marc Iavaroni & Gregg Popovich
- Started his coaching career at Rice as director of player development in 2008 under head coach Ben Braun
- After two years as an assistant for the Memphis Grizzlies, returned to the D-I ranks as an assistant to Memphis’ Josh Pastner
- Spent three seasons with Pastner (in two stints) and two seasons at Arizona under Sean Miller
- Hired in March 2016 as the head coach at University of the Pacific
- Improved the program from 11 wins in his first season to 23 wins in fourth; won WCC COY and the Ben Jobe Award in 2020
- In July 2021, Stoudamire announced that he was leaving Pacific to become an assistant under friend and fellow Portland-native Ime Udoka with the NBA’s Boston Celtics; stayed on for most of the 2022-23 season under Joe Mazzulla
- Made a return to college basketball in March 2023, when he was hired to be the new head coach at Georgia Tech
Damon Stoudamire Coaching Tree
- Leonard Perry (Pacific)
