Patrick Henry (basketball)
- For other persons named Patrick Henry, see Patrick Henry (disambiguation).
| Patrick Henry | |
|---|---|
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
| Current position | |
| Title | Associate Head Coach |
| Team | Texas State |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | unknown Warner Robins, Georgia |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| {{{coach_years}}} | Northside High School (Asst.) Florida Southern (Asst.) Georgia Southern (Asst.) East Texas Baptist (Asst.) Mercer (Asst.) Texas State (Asst.) Texas State (Assoc. HC) |
Patrick R. Henry (born November 7, ???? in Warner Robins, Georgia), is an assistant women's basketball coach for Texas State. Henry attended Northside High School in Warner Robins, Georgia. While at Northside, he served as both a manager and a volunteer assistant coach. An unusual situation and with Henry often coaching players who were older than he was, many[who?] believed that Henry to be the youngest coach ever to win a GHSA-sanctioned game, coaching Northside's ninth grade boys' basketball team to a 74–42 victory at the age of fourteen against the Perry High School ninth grade boys' basketball team.
After graduation, Henry enrolled at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, where he became a student manager under Marynell Meadors (current Head Coach and General Manager of the Atlanta WNBA franchise, the Atlanta Dream). After his sophomore year, he transferred to Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he majored in communications and was a student manager under then Ohio head coach Larry Hunter.
After graduating in 1998, Henry became an associate coach at his alma mater, Northside High School. After one season, he left to become an assistant coach at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida. From Florida Southern, Henry moved to Frank Phillips College, then to Georgia Southern, and served a brief stint at East Texas Baptist University.
He later moved on to Mercer University where he remained as an assistant, until accepting a position with the women's basketball program at Texas State University where he was named Associate Head Coach in 2008.
[edit] Coaching résumé
- 1991-1998 - Volunteer Assistant, Northside High School (Warner Robins, Georgia)
- 1998-1999 - Associate Coach, Northside High School
- 1999-2000 - Assistant Coach, Florida Southern College
- 2000-2001 - Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator, Frank Phillips College
- 2001-2002 - Administrative Assistant, Georgia Southern University
- 2002-2002 - Assistant Coach, East Texas Baptist University (Women's Basketball)
- 2002-2005 - Assistant Coach, Mercer University
- 2005-2008 - Assistant Coach, Texas State University (Women's Basketball)
- 2008-2011 - Associate Head Coach/Recruiting Coordinator, Texas State University (Women's Basketball)
Due to various coaching stops throughout his career, he also holds some unique distinctions:
- Has worked under four national coaches of the year: Suzanne Fox, Mark Slonaker, Jeff Price and Larry Hunter.
- Has worked at the High School, Junior College, Division III, Division II and Division I levels as an assistant coach.
- Part of four separate coaching staffs that have either won or shared a conference championship:
- 2000 Sunshine State Conference (Florida Southern)
- 2002 Southern Conference-South (Georgia Southern)
- 2003 Atlantic Sun (Mercer)
- 2008 Southland Conference (Texas State)
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- Living people
- American basketball coaches
- Basketball players from Georgia (U.S. state)
- East Texas Baptist University
- Florida State University alumni
- High school basketball coaches in the United States
- Junior college men's basketball coaches in the United States
- Mercer Bears men's basketball coaches
- Mercer University alumni
- Ohio Bobcats men's basketball players
- People from Warner Robins, Georgia
- Texas State Bobcats women's basketball coaches
