Kevin Keatts adds three new members to N.C. State basketball coaching staff
N.C. State replaced a top assistant coach and added two other staffers, the school announced on Tuesday.
Wolfpack men’s basketball coach Kevin Keatts added assistant Mike Summey to his bench, along with the addition of Steve Snell (director of basketball operations) and Chris Zupko (assistant director of basketball operations).
“I’m thrilled to announce three quality hires for our basketball program,” Keatts said in a release. “These are three coaches that add tremendous experience to our program and will help us develop our young men to the best of their abilities both on-and-off-the-court.”
Summey comes back to his home state after spending the last five seasons as an assistant coach at Bowling Green. The Hickory native is a 1997 graduate of N.C. State, where he served as a student manager and a graduate manager from 1997-99.
Summey has climbed up the coaching ladder with stops at Queens College, The Citadel, North Florida and Saint Francis (Pa.). He also served as the Director of Basketball Operations at Miami from 2009-13. He had a head coaching job with Division III Bethany in 2008-09, leading the Bison to a 17-12 record. That was the best record in school history for a first-year head coach.
Snell comes to N.C. State after spending one season as an assistant coach at Ohio. He was previously an assistant at University of Denver, Santa Clara, Air Force, Louisiana-Monroe, Tulane, Marshall, East Tennessee State, UNC-Greensboro, Wingate and Radford.
Zupko spent four years at Drexel before taking the job with the Wolfpack. He has history with Keatts, serving on his staff as an assistant at Hargrave Military Academy. Zupko started his coaching career in 1995 at Roanoke College in Virginia.
Keatts lost longtime assistant Takayo Siddle in the offseason. Siddle left to become the head coach at UNC-Wilmington.
