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Lamar Barrett, a former assistant coach at Central Connecticut
State and the University of New Haven, and the former Director of
Hoop Group Elite, has been named an assistant basketball coach at
Brown in an announcement made by Bears' head coach Jesse Agel.
Barrett has a myriad of coaching experience at the college and high
school levels. He worked for the Hoop Group and was Director of
Hoop Group Elite since 2006, the nation's largest high school
exposure camp. He also assisted in running other Hoop Group events.
Barrett worked as an assistant men's basketball coach at Central
Connecticut from 2003-2005, and New Haven from 2005-2006. He was
also the head assistant coach at the Oxon Hill High School in Oxon
Hill, Maryland from 1997-2003, winning three Prince George's County
4A Championships and two Maryland State Championships. "In Lamar
Barrett we're getting someone who will bring a vast recruiting
background and has been involved with many of the same type of
student-athletes we'll look to recruit at Brown," said Agel. "He's
a great person, a great role model and we're thrilled that he's
joining our staff. A 1994 graduate of Elizabeth City State
University with a BS in Business Administration, Barrett was a
two-year team captain for the Vikings. He also played for a year at
Longwood College. Barrett, a native of Hampton Roads, Virginia who
starred at Franklin High School, has worked several camps
throughout his career, including the Five Star Basketball Camp, the
Holy Cross Basketball Camp, and Jim Boeheim's Basketball Camp. He
was the co-founder/head coach of the Prince George's County Select
AAU Team (1999-2003), and was a member of the Board of Trustees of
the Oxon Hill County Select AAU Team (1999-2003). He and his wife,
Casandra, plan to live in the Providence area.
