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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, begins his second season as an assistant on the
Brown coaching staff.
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.
“Lamar Barrett brings a vast recruiting background and
involvement 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 on 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, reside in West Warwick, Rhode Island.
