Tommy Yancey accepted the job as the Coastal Georgia men’s basketball assistant coach in July.
Yancey joins the Mariners after having spent time as both a head coach and assistant at several other schools in the high school and collegiate ranks.
Yancey most recently coached at Grace Christian Academy in Bainbridge where he was head boys and girls basketball coach along with serving as the school’s athletic director. In the 2013-14 season, he guided both teams to their respective state tournaments, marking the first time in school history both earned state berths in the same season.
Prior to that, Yancey coached for three seasons at St. Johns River State College in Florida, where the team had two of its best seasons record-wise since the 1960s.
Before going to St. Johns, he was the head boys coach for one season at Schley County in Ellaville, leading his team there to its second-best record in school history at the time.
Yancey began his coaching career at Brookstone High in Columbus under Robert Moore, who was his coach when he played in Georgia’s junior college ranks at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton.
Yancey finished his degree in social sciences at Troy University in 2006.
He played college basketball at both ABAC and Georgia Southwestern in Americus. He helped Georgia Southwestern to the NAIA national tournament in the 2005 season when the school competed in the Southern States Athletic Conference.
A native of Loganville, Yancey graduated from Piedmont Academy, where he was an all-state basketball player while also playing football and baseball.
