Doug Lewis Promoted to Head Men's Basketball Coach at Central
State
May 26, 2003
Associate Head Coach Doug Lewis has been named to succeed
Michael R. Grant as Head Coach of the Central State University
Men's Basketball program. Grant, who had a 126-94 record in
seven seasons at the helm of the Marauders, resigned to become
the Head Men's Basketball Coach at Southern University in Baton
Rouge, LA.
Doug Lewis
Lewis began his coaching career as an assistant at Washington
High School in Milwaukee, in 1992. The next year he joined
the staff at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee which plays
in the Horizon Conference and worked there for five seasons
before coming to CSU to be the number one assistant under Coach
Grant. In 2000 he was promoted to Associate Head Coach.
Lewis played for Mesa (AZ) Community College and then transferred
to Southwest Missouri State University where he graduated in
1989 with a degree in Communications. He was the Mid-Continent
Conference Newcomer of the Year his junior season and All-Conference
as a senior. SWMS went to the NCAA Division I Tournament both
years that Lewis played. At SWMS, Lewis was coached by Charlie
Spoonhour.
