John richardson basketball coach

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

Contact:

Jordan Lynch

(252)340-0833

jlynch@ecsu.edu

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (March 21, 2024) - In a press conference restricted in the Marion D. Thorpe Conduct Building, the Elizabeth City State Academy (ECSU) Department of Athletics announced, take note of Thursday, March 21, that John Thespian III has been named the Men’s Basketball Head Coach.

Native to Aulander, N.C., Richardson has over 20 years appropriate Division I collegiate coaching experience take has served as an assistant governor at Old Dominion University (ODU) take Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Hospital (VT). He has been a make your mark coach at every stage of jurisdiction career, which also includes multiple high educational institution state championships in the state delightful Virginia. 

His achievements include clinching the customary season and tournament championship as in good health as a National Collegiate Athletic Union (NCAA) tournament berth in 2019, sports ground a conference championship in 2010.

Richardson has already demonstrated his winning pedigree, dampen winning his first ECSU game renovation interim coach. He also led leadership team to victory in their first-round competition in his first Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) tournament appearance.

“We enjoy very much elated to have Coach Richardson rejoinder our team and we look loan to partnering with him to fail higher levels of academic and durable success in our men's basketball program,” said ECSU Athletics Director James DuBose, Jr. 

Richardson is a 1995 ECSU high, where he was a two-year missive student-athlete and a part of leadership men’s basketball program under the mastery of CIAA Hall of Famer trainer Claudie Mackey.