Scott Cherry
Scott Cherry in 2013
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | High Point |
| Conference | Big South |
| Record | 132–118 (.528) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
February 18, 1971 Ballston Spa, New York |
| Playing career | |
| 1989–1993 | North Carolina |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1997–1998 | Bishop McGuinness HS (asst.) |
| 1998–1999 | Middle Tennessee State (women's asst.) |
| 1999–2002 | George Mason (asst.) |
| 2002–2003 | Tennessee Tech (asst.) |
| 2003–2007 | George Mason (asst.) |
| 2007–2008 | Western Kentucky (asst.) |
| 2008–2009 | South Carolina (asst.) |
| 2009–present | High Point |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 4× Big South regular season championship (2013–2016) | |
| Awards | |
| Big South Coach of the Year (2014) | |
Scott Douglas Cherry (born February 18, 1971) is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at High Point University. He replaced Bart Lundy in 2009. Cherry is a native of Ballston Spa, New York.
Cherry played for the Saratoga Central Catholic High School Saints in Saratoga Springs, New York. He played under coach Bob King who is widely considered Spa Catholic's greatest basketball coach of all time. University of North Carolina basketball head coach Dean Smith visited the Spa Catholic gym to sign Cherry in 1988.
Cherry played for the University of North Carolina Tar Heels basketball team under Dean Smith from 1989 to 1993. He was a senior captain on the Tar Heel team that won the 1993 NCAA Tournament.
Following his college career, Cherry played one season for AEL in Limassol, Cyprus. He then returned to the U.S. and subsequently became a forklift salesman for three years.
Cherry began his coaching career in 1997 as an assistant coach at Bishop McGuinness (NC) High School. He then spent one season as an assistant women's basketball coach at Middle Tennessee State.
In 1999, he began the first of two stints as an assistant to Jim Larranaga at George Mason. He left the Patriots in 2002 and spent one year as an assistant at Tennessee Tech. He returned to George Mason in 2003 and participated in the Patriots 2006 run to the Final Four.
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