02/13/2012 Spinelli Guests on Radio Show TonightJoin Coach and Johnny Holliday at Buffalo Wild Wings 01/06/2012 Inside MD Basketball Airs SundayNew episode at 9:30 a.m. on Comcast SportsNet 12/28/2011 Postgame QuotesMaryland 83, Albany 72 10/12/2011 Men's Hoops Holds Media DayHead coach Mark Turgeon, student-athletes met with media Wednesday at Comcast Center Following five seasons on various staffs for head coach Mark Turgeon, Scott Spinelli comes to College Park to be part of the coaching staff at the University of Maryland. "Scott is a bulldog recruiter with tremendous connection up and down the east coast," said Turgeon. "He is also an excellent coach with a tremendous basketball mind." Spinelli sent four seasons with Turgeon as the associate head coach at Texas A&M, and was in the same position with Turgeon at Wichita State in 2006-07. Prior to that, he was an assistant at Nebraska for three seasons, when he helped land two nationally-ranked recruiting classes. He was the Cornhuskers' associate head coach in 2005-06. All-Big 12 center Aleks Maric was among the players he signed at Nebraska. From 2001-03, Spinelli was an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Loyola-Chicago. He helped the Ramblers to 32 wins over two seasons (2001-02 and 2002-03) -- the program's most in a two-year span since the mid-1980s -- including a berth in the championship game of the 2002 Horizon League Tournament. Spinelli recruited and developed Paul McMillan, a junior-college transfer who won the Horizon League's Newcomer of the Year Award in 2003. His first recruiting class for the Ramblers also included Terrance Whiters, who was ranked among the top 70 overall prospects in the country and among the top 20 point guards by ESPN.com. Spinelli has been recognized by several media outlets as one of the nation's top assistant coaches. Before joining the Ramblers, Spinelli spent one year as a scout for the Philadelphia 76ers, evaluating players in the Big East and Atlantic 10 conferences, along with high school players from the Northeast. Spinelli served as an assistant coach for Cincinnati of the International Basketball League (IBL) in 1999-2000, helping the Stuff to an Eastern Conference regular-season championship. Prior to his work in the IBL, Spinelli spent two years as associate head coach (1997-99) at American University in Washington, D.C., where he was responsible for two nationally-recognized recruiting classes. Spinelli's first collegiate coaching stop came at Wyoming in 1996-97. He began his coaching career on the prep level in 1990 at the Milford Academy, where he spent three seasons as head coach. In 1993, Spinelli started the basketball program at The Winchendon School in Winchendon, Mass., where he produced several Division I players. The school remains one of the top prep school programs in the Northeast. The Leominster, Mass., native earned his bachelor's degree from Boston University in 1989. As a student-athlete, Spinelli initially walked on with the Terriers before earning a scholarship as a point guard under Mike Jarvis, who went on to a successful stint as head coach at St. John's. Spinelli and his wife, Lynn, have three children: Gianna, Gabriel and Joseph. SPINELLI CAREER 2007-11 - Associate Head Coach, Texas A&M |
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