Michael Grant became the newest member of the Stillman College Athletics family when athletics director, Curtis Campbell, officially named him head men’s basketball coach on April 25, 2008. Grant brings nine years of experience to the Tiger program and has won more than 54 percent of his games as a head coach.

Grant comes to Stillman after two seasons (2003-05) at Southern University (LA) where he replaced the legendary Ben Jobe who retired from the school after 12 years.

In just two seasons, Grant helped steer the Jaguar program to its first winning season in the Southwestern Athletic Conference in almost nine years. Even more impressive, before leaving the school at the end of the 2005 season, Grant played an integral role in establishing the 2006 Southern team that went on to win the SWAC regular season and tournament titles, earning the program’s first NCAA tournament appearance since 1990.

Credited by former players as a “disciplinarian,” Grant’s coaching genius was first established at NAIA Central State University (OH). In only seven seasons, Grant led the Marauders to three 20-win campaigns and only one losing season—his first in 1996-97.

During the 1999-00 season, Grant led Central State to the program’s first victory in the NAIA National Tournament since 1979. By the end of his seven year tenure at the school, Grant had become only the fourth Central State coach to have won more than 100 games in his career with the school.  

Grant began his coaching career at his alma mater, Malone College (OH), where he first studied under Hal Smith as a student assistant. Grant then served on Smith’s staff in 1985 as a full-time assistant before heading to the University of Michigan as a graduate assistant where he helped coach and develop his younger brother Gary Grant, who eventually became the Big Ten Player of the Year in 1988. Gary Grant was the 14^th overall player chosen in the 1988 NBA draft.

Born on March 13, 1963, to Donald and Mary Grant in small town Hugo, OK, Grant grew up near Cleveland, OH, along with his four brothers: Jeff, Don, Gary and Chris. Grant and his wife Charmane currently reside in Lawrenceville, GA, with their two daughters: Raynesha, 17; and Lauren, 15. Grant also has a son, Chris, 26.  

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