Bio

Brandon Averitt begins his collegiate coaching career as he joins the Panthers as an assistant coach for the 2023-2024 season. Averitt’s coaching duties include recruiting, scouting, player development, and assisting in game and practice responsibilities.

Averitt has a great amount of experience at the college level. As a member of the Men’s Basketball team at the University of Texas-El Paso, Averitt played under great coaches such as former USC and Chicago Bulls head coach Tim Floyd and current Texas head coach Rodney Terry. Averitt finished his playing career at the State University of New York at Canton, where he was a member of the 2020 North Atlantic Conference Championship team and participated in the 2020 NCAA National Tournament. Averitt shot over 40% from the three-point line in his career, with career highs of 21 points and seven three-pointers in a single game. For both universities, Averitt was the representative for the Men’s Basketball team on the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).

Averitt has international playing experience as well. As a member of Team USA in the 2019 Maccabi Pan-American Games hosted in Mexico City, Averitt and his team went undefeated against teams from Argentina, Australia, Guatemala, and Mexico on their path to the gold medal. Averitt also was a member of Team USA in the 2016 United World Games hosted in Austria, where he and his team came home with the bronze medal.

During the 2020-2021 season, Averitt temporarily stepped away from playing college basketball during the COVID year to become the head coach of Monrovia High School’s Boys’ Basketball Junior Varsity team. Averitt was the assistant coach for the school’s Varsity team as well.

Averitt, a Monrovia native, graduated from SUNY Canton in 2023 with Summa Cum Laude honors and a Bachelor’s degree in Sport Management. Prior to college, Averitt attended Tarbut V’Torah High School where he averaged over 20 points per game and earned Express League MVP and CIF Southern Section Second Team honors.