Takayo Siddle

Last updated
Takayo Siddle
Current position
TitleHead coach
Team UNC Wilmington
Conference CAA
Record79–39 (.669)
Annual salary$600,000
Biographical details
Born (1986-05-25) May 25, 1986 (age 37)
Eden, North Carolina, U.S.
Playing career
2005–2009 Gardner–Webb
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2009–2010 Hargrave Military Academy (asst.)
2010–2014 Gardner–Webb (asst.)
2014–2017 UNC Wilmington (asst.)
2017–2020 NC State (asst.)
2020–presentUNC Wilmington
Head coaching record
Overall79–39 (.669)
Tournaments4–0 (CBI)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
CBI (2022)
CAA regular season (2022)
Awards
CAA Coach of the Year (2022)

Takayo Lemont Siddle (born May 25, 1986) is an American basketball coach who is the current head coach of the UNC Wilmington Seahawks men's basketball team. [1]

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Playing career

Siddle was a basketball standout at John Motley Morehead High School in Eden, North Carolina, averaging 27.0 points, 6.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game as a senior. He attended Hargrave Military Academy in 2004–05 and helped the team reach the prep school championship game. [2] Siddle played college basketball at Gardner–Webb under Rick Scruggs. [3] As a sophomore, Siddle averaged 8.6 points per game. [2] In his junior season, Siddle scored eight points in a 84–68 Runnin' Bulldogs win at Rupp Arena vs. 20th-ranked Kentucky to advance to the final four of the 2007 2K Sports College Hoops Classic in Madison Square Garden. [4] [5]

Coaching career

After his playing career, Siddle became an assistant coach at Hargrave Military Academy for one season under Kevin Keatts. [6] He then returned to his alma mater to work for as an assistant coach at Gardner–Webb for four seasons under both Chris Holtmann and Tim Craft. [7]

Siddle then reunited with Keatts as an assistant coach at UNC Wilmington, where the Seahawks won back-to-back CAA regular season and conference tournament titles in 2016 and 2017. [1] He was named interim coach of the Seahawks in March 2017. [8]

He followed Keatts as an assistant at NC State from 2017 to 2020 before returning to UNC Wilmington as head coach on March 13, 2020, as the 13th head coach in Seahawk history. [2] Siddle signed a five-year deal with a base salary of $300,000 plus supplemental compensation. [9]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
UNC Wilmington Seahawks (Colonial Athletic Association)(2020–present)
2020–21 UNC Wilmington 7–101–610th
2021–22 UNC Wilmington 27–915–3T–1st CBI Champion
2022–23 UNC Wilmington 24–1012–6T–3rd
2023–24 UNC Wilmington 21–1012–6T–3rd
UNC Wilmington:79–39 (.669)41–21 (.661)
Total:79–39 (.669)

      National champion        Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion        Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion      Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

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