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HICKORY – Lenoir-Rhyne University has selected a Hendersonville native who coached the last two seasons at Armstrong State in Georgia to join its men’s basketball coaching staff.
CORLISS
On Wednesday, the Bears announced they’ve hired Zach Corliss — who played at West Henderson High and then at Armstrong State (Savannah, Ga.) — to join head coach Everick Sullivan’s staff.
Sullivan, who came to LRU after working as an assistant coach at Georgia State University, will be in his second season with the Bears. They went 10-17 last season, including 9-13 in the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) to tie Tusculum for eighth place in a 12-team conference.
“We are excited to welcome Zach to our staff,” Sullivan said in an LRU press release. “Zach is a great addition and he did an excellent job at Armstrong State University. He has a bright future in the business and will build great relationships with our players. He is sharp, has a great work ethic and we are thrilled to bring him to the Lenoir-Rhyne basketball family.”
Corliss served two seasons as a graduate assistant at Armstrong State, a member of the Peach Belt Conference, while earning his master’s degree in adult education in 2015. He received a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education from Armstrong State in 2013 before working as a volunteer assistant coach at Windsor Forest High in Savannah in the 2012-2013 school year.
Corliss played four years (2008-12) at Armstrong State with the 2008-09 team going 23-7, gaining an NCAA Division II berth and finishing ranked in the Top 25 in NCAA Division II by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC).
He was an all-conference high school player and selected all-area and All-Western North Carolina during a career in which he scored more than 1,000 points.
- LRU Sports Information