Jamion Christian

Jamion Christian
Current position
Sport(s)	Basketball
Title	Head coach
Team	Mount St. Mary’s
Conference	NEC
Record	63–65 (.492)
Biographical details
Born	(1982-04-18) April 18, 1982 Quinton, Virginia
Playing career
2000–2003	Mount St. Mary’s
Position(s)	Guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2004–2006	Emory and Henry (asst.)
2008–2011	William & Mary (asst.)
2011–2012	VCU (asst.)
2012–present	Mount St. Mary’s
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
2006–2008	Bucknell (basketball ops.)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
NEC Tournament championship (2014)

Jamion Christian (born April 18, 1982)^[1] is an American college basketball coach. He is the current and 22nd head coach of men’s basketball at Mount St. Mary's University.^[2] He is under contract to coach the team through the 2018–19 season.^[3]

Biography

Christian was born and raised in Quinton, Virginia. As a shooting guard, he led New Kent High School to a Virginia High School League State Championship with a 26–0 record and earned the VHSL Group A State Player of the Year honors. Christian then became a shooting guard and a three-year captain for Mount St. Mary's under head coaches Jim Phelan and Milan Brown. Christian's Father, John Christian, was a stand out track athlete at Norfolk State University.

Assistant coaching career

Christian began his coaching career as an assistant at Emory and Henry College (2004–06), Bucknell (2006–08) and then William & Mary (2008–11). While with Coach Shaver and the Tribe, Christian recruited two of the most successful players in Tribe history: Brandon Britt and Marcus Thornton.

Christian then served as an assistant at Virginia Commonwealth (2011–12) under head coach Shaka Smart, helping the Rams to the third round of the 2012 NCAA tournamentafter upsetting #5 seed Wichita State in the 2nd round. Coach Christian also helped the rams to a 2012 CAA Tournament championship and finished 2011-12 season with the most wins in school history (29).

Head coaching career

Mount St. Mary's hired Christian as head coach on March 26, 2012. Christian implemented an up-tempo offense and “mayhem” defense, comparable to VCU's "havoc" defense popularized by Shaka Smart. After his first season at the helm, Christian was named finalist for 2013 Joe B. Hall Award presented to the top first-year head coach in Division 1.

During the 2012-13 season, the Mountaineers qualified for the NEC tournament for the first time since the 2009–10 season. As a No. 5 seed, Mount St. Mary's upset Bryant and Robert Morris, but lost to Long Island University in the championship game.^[4] During the 2013-14 season, the Mountaineers won the NEC tournament and earned an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Won the 2014 NEC Tournament and received automatic bid to NCAA Tournament – program’s first since 2008.

Coach Christian was also responsible for overseeing development of Rashad Whack (2014 NEC Tournament MVP and 2nd Team All-NEC; 2013 NEC All-Tournament Team), Julian Norfleet (2014 NEC All-Tournament Team and 2nd Team All-NEC), Sam Prescott (2014 NEC All-Tournament Team) and Shivaughn Wiggins (2013 NEC Rookie of the Year and CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Freshman of the Year).

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers (Northeast Conference) (2012–present)
2012–13	Mount St. Mary's	18–14	11–7	T–5th
2013–14	Mount St. Mary's	16–17	9–7	4th	NCAA First Four
2014–15	Mount St. Mary's	15–15	11–7	4th
2015–16	Mount St. Mary's	14–19	10–8	5th
2016–17	Mount St. Mary's	0–0	0–0
Mount St. Mary's:		63–65 (.492)	41–29 (.586)
Total:		63–65 (.492)
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion

References

↑ http://mountathletics.com/sports/mbkb/coaches/Jamion_Christian
↑ http://www.mountathletics.com/sports/mbkb/coaches/index
↑ "Mount St. Mary's University Announces Contract Extension for Men's Basketball Head Coach Jamion Christian". MountAthletics.com. September 17, 2014. Retrieved January 24, 2015.
↑ http://www.northeastconference.org/news/2013/3/9/MBB_SemiRecaps_13.aspx

Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers men's basketball head coaches

William Walsh (1908–1909)
Al Barrett (1909–1910)
Francis Liddy (1910–1911)
Mike Thompson (1911–1913)
John L. Day (1913–1917)
Mike Thompson (1917–1920)
Charles A. Dickerman (1920–1921)
John Sheridan (1921–1923)
Walter Halas (1923–1924)
Art Malloy (1924–1935)
Joe Lawler (1935–1937)
Joseph McCormick (1937–1938)
Art Malloy (1938–1941)
Wally Opekun (1941–1942)
No team (1942–1943)
Wally Opekun (1943–1947)
Steve Filipowicz (1947–1948)
Wally Opekun # (1948)
Michael Kennedy (1948–1949)
John McMahon (1949–1950)
Pete Caruso (1950–1951)
Bill Clark (1951–1954)
Jim Phelan (1954–2003)
Milan Brown (2003–2010)
Robert Burke (2010–2012)
Matt Henry # (2012)
Jamion Christian (2012– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Current men's basketball head coaches of the Northeast Conference

Tim O'Shea (Bryant) Donyell Marshall (Central Connecticut) Greg Herenda (Fairleigh Dickinson) Jack Perri (LIU Brooklyn) Jamion Christian (Mount St. Mary's) Andrew Toole (Robert Morris) Anthony Latina (Sacred Heart) Rob Krimmel (Saint Francis (PA)) Glenn Braica (St. Francis Brooklyn) Bashir Mason (Wagner)

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