Takayo Siddle

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Takayo Siddle
Current position
TitleHead coach
TeamUNC Wilmington
ConferenceCAA
Record79–39 (.669)
Annual salary$600,000
Biographical details
Born (1986-05-25) May 25, 1986 (age 37)
Eden, North Carolina, U.S.
Playing career
2005–2009Gardner–Webb
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2009–2010Hargrave Military Academy (asst.)
2010–2014Gardner–Webb (asst.)
2014–2017UNC Wilmington (asst.)
2017–2020NC State (asst.)
2020–presentUNC Wilmington
Head coaching record
Overall79–39 (.669)
Tournaments4–0 (CBI)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
CBI (2022)
CAA regular season (2022)
Awards
CAA Coach of the Year (2022)

Takayo Lemont Siddle (born May 25, 1986) is an American basketball coach who is the current head coach of the UNC Wilmington Seahawks men's basketball team.[1]

Playing career[edit]

Siddle was a basketball standout at John Motley Morehead High School in Eden, North Carolina, averaging 27.0 points, 6.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game as a senior. He attended Hargrave Military Academy in 2004–05 and helped the team reach the prep school championship game.[2] Siddle played college basketball at Gardner–Webb under Rick Scruggs.[3] As a sophomore, Siddle averaged 8.6 points per game.[2] In his junior season, Siddle scored eight points in a 84–68 Runnin' Bulldogs win at Rupp Arena vs. 20th-ranked Kentucky to advance to the final four of the 2007 2K Sports College Hoops Classic in Madison Square Garden.[4][5]

Coaching career[edit]

After his playing career, Siddle became an assistant coach at Hargrave Military Academy for one season under Kevin Keatts.[6] He then returned to his alma mater to work for as an assistant coach at Gardner–Webb for four seasons under both Chris Holtmann and Tim Craft.[7]

Siddle then reunited with Keatts as an assistant coach at UNC Wilmington, where the Seahawks won back-to-back CAA regular season and conference tournament titles in 2016 and 2017.[1] He was named interim coach of the Seahawks in March 2017.[8]

He followed Keatts as an assistant at NC State from 2017 to 2020 before returning to UNC Wilmington as head coach on March 13, 2020, as the 13th head coach in Seahawk history.[2] Siddle signed a five-year deal with a base salary of $300,000 plus supplemental compensation.[9]

Head coaching record[edit]

Statistics overview
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
UNC Wilmington Seahawks (Colonial Athletic Association) (2020–present)
2020–21 UNC Wilmington 7–10 1–6 10th
2021–22 UNC Wilmington 27–9 15–3 T–1st CBI Champion
2022–23 UNC Wilmington 24–10 12–6 T–3rd
2023–24 UNC Wilmington 21–10 12–6 T–3rd
UNC Wilmington: 79–39 (.669) 41–21 (.661)
Total: 79–39 (.669)

      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[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Takayo Siddle - Head Men's Basketball Coach - Staff Directory". UNC Wilmington Athletics.
  2. ^ a b c "Seahawks Name Siddle New Head Coach". UNC Wilmington Athletics. March 13, 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  3. ^ "Takayo Siddle College Stats". College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com.
  4. ^ "Gardner-Webb vs. Kentucky Box Score, November 7, 2007". College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com.
  5. ^ "Gardner-Webb Stuns No. 20 Kentucky, 84-68". Gardner-Webb University Athletics.
  6. ^ "Takayo Siddle - Assistant Coach - Men's Basketball Coaches". NC State University Athletics.
  7. ^ "Takayo Siddle - Men's Basketball". Gardner-Webb University Athletics.
  8. ^ "UNCW hires coach off N.C. State staff". The Times-News. March 15, 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  9. ^ Smist, John (March 16, 2020). "UNCW agrees to five-year contract with Takayo Siddle". WECT. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
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