Anthony Andre'

Head Coach

andrea@DaytonaState.edu
Tel:- (386) 506-3105
Bld. 310 Rm. 232

Anthony Andre begins his first year as the head coach for the men’s program. He has a sincere interest in the student part of the student-athlete. His first goal is to have his basketball player’s graduate and be productive citizens. After being out of coaching for 7 years, Coach Andrea is excited to have this great opportunity to rejuvenate his career and get back into coaching. He has had a wide variety of playing and coaching experience starting as an assistant coach at the University of West Alabama, his alma mater. He then went on to coach at Greater Perimeter College in Decatur, Georgia, Connors State College in Warner, Oklahoma, Alabama A&M University in Normal, Alabama, Voorhees College in Denmark, South Carolina and Texas College in Tyler Texas. He has demonstrated the ability to find and bring the talent out of players.

Andre is from Albany, New York. He is a graduate of Colonie Central High School, where he led his team to a district championship. Coach Andre received a scholarship to Wichita State University, but then transferred and graduated from Butler County Community College (BCCC). At BCCC he averaged 21 points and 11 rebounds while earning all-conference honors. He finished his college career at the University of West Alabama, earning all-conference honors and a B.S. in Business Administration and a Masters in Continuing Education with an emphasis in physical education. He went on to play professional basketball in South America and Europe for three years. He has one son, Ian, who will be starting his first year at Daytona State College as a red-shirt freshman.

Courtney Robinson

Assistant Coach

robinsonco@DaytonaState.edu
Tel:- (386) 506-4603
Bld. 310 Rm. 247

Courtney Robinson joins the Daytona State College men’s basketball staff as an Assistant Coach with five years of coaching experience. Coach Robinson will be in charge of developing the guards at Daytona State. Coach Robinson has previous experience working with elite caliber athletes. At Stetson University in 2007-2008, Coach Robinson worked with the guards and helped to develop an All-Freshmen Team guard in the Atlantic Sun Conference and at Coatesville High School in Pennsylvania, she coached a McDonald’s All-American point guard who currently plays division I basketball.

Prior to Daytona State, Coach Robinson spent one year as a high school assistant coach at Cedar Ridge High School in North Carolina, two years as a high school head coach at Coatesville High School (24-7 record in her first year), one year as a player/coach at Division II Goldey-Beacom College in Wilmington, Delaware, and one year as an assistant coach at nearby Stetson University. Now at Daytona State College, Head Coach Tony Andre commented, “After thinking about where we want the program to go, Coach Robinson brings to Daytona State men’s basketball, completeness with her fundamentally sound coaching experience that will enhance the men’s program.”

All of these coaching assignments were on the women’s side, but Coach Robinson is extremely excited about the opportunity to coach men’s basketball. “Basketball is basketball. I just have to approach it differently and highlight different skills with men versus with women. I am the first woman to coach men’s college basketball at Daytona State, so I am definitely excited to make history!” There have been other women who have coached men’s college basketball in other states, so this is not a first. “Other women who have done the same thing as I am doing have had great success in the coaching world, and I hope to follow in their footsteps.”

Another woman who has coached men’s college basketball is Bernadette (Locke) Mattox (currently with the WNBA Connecticut Sun). Coach Mattox spent four years as an assistant under Rick Pitino at Kentucky University beginning in 1990 while making history by becoming the first female to serve as a Division I assistant for a men’s team. “I would like to have success like Coach Mattox, but I know that it will take a lot of hard work and dedication to do that and I am more than ready to do what it takes.”

Coach Robinson graduated from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania in 2003 with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Secondary Education/Spanish. She taught high school Spanish for four years and is now pursuing her Master’s degree in Sports Management & Coaching.

A native of Penndel, Pennsylvania, Coach Robinson currently resides in Daytona Beach.