Hamilton joins the Old Dominion staff after a nine-year run at Hampton University. He saw the Pirates change conferences three times in a five-year span going from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, to the Big South, to the Coastal Athletic Association. Hamilton has served in a variety of roles with the Pirates from operations director, to assistant coach, to associate coach and recruiting coordinator.
He joined the Pirates in 2015 as the director of operations. After a year in that position, he was promoted to a full-time assistant coach. In 2022, he was elevated to associate head coach and continued to serve in his role as recruiting coordinator for the Pirates.
Hamilton will play a major role in the planning and execution of the day-to-day basketball operations, student-athlete relationships, player development, recruiting, arranging travel, scouting reports, and helping ensure the academic success of ODU’s student-athletes.
He began his career when he was just 16 years old, serving as an assistant coach at Marvin Ridge High School in his home town of Waxhaw, North Carolina. A student manager during his college days at Appalachian State, he also assisted with player development, film editing, scouting reports, practice setup and on-campus recruiting visits. Hamilton earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education from Appalachian State and a master’s degree in sports administration from Hampton in 2017.
Following graduation from App State, he served as an assistant coach and head JV coach at Lees-McRae. With the men’s team, he was responsible for player development, recruiting, scheduling, scouting, and academics. As head JV coach, he was in charge of in-game coaching and organizing and running practices. While Hamilton was at Lees-McRae, the school set a program record for wins in a season. He coached two All-Conference players during his tenure, including Jaquise Moore – who led all of Division II in steals with 3.3 per contest.
While at Hampton, the Pirates made four postseason tournaments. They won the MEAC regular season and tournament title in 2015-16, qualified for the CBI Tournament in 2016-17, won the MEAC regular season and made the NIT Tournament in 2017-18 and earned a CIT Tournament bid in 2018-19.