Northeast
Basketball
Men’s Assistant Coach Nick Coln Years 2010-Present 2009-10 2002-09
Position Assistant Coach Head Coach Head Coach
School/Organization NEMCC Olive Branch HS Alcorn Central HS
Nick Coln Nick Coln, who is one of the most prolific scorers of all-time in this area, will continue to help the Tiger basketball team under the direction of first-year headman Cord Wright during the 2013-14 campaign. He enters his third season of walking the sidelines at Bonner Arnold Coliseum as an instructor to student athletes. A former Northeast player himself, Coln served as a volunteer assistant in 2010-11 and officially joined the coaching staff a year later with current athletic director and former hoops skipper David Robbins. The Glen native serves a dual role in Booneville and instructs the men’s golf team during the spring semester. Coln’s linksters were very consistent in his first season as head coach in 2013. The Tigers finished in eighth place in three of their six Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges (MACJC) tour stops. Northeast shot a 635 total score and finished only four strokes out of the eighth spot in the MACJC State Tournament at the Dixie Golf Course in Laurel. Freshman golfer Blake Farris tallied a twoday score of 154 and just missed qualifying for the National Junior College Athletic Association
(NJCAA) Region 23 Tournament. Farris lost a tiebreaker to Hinds Community College’s Caleb Terry and Jones County Junior College’s Zach Toney. Coln comes from Olive Branch High School where he led the Conquistadors to a 21-8 overall mark and a 4-2 record in league play during the 2009-10 season. Olive Branch advanced to the first round of the Mississippi High School Activities Association (MHSAA) Class 6A state basketball playoffs. Coln helped lead the Northeast men’s basketball team to the NJCAA Division I National Tournament at the Sports Arena in Hutchinson, Kan., during his sophomore season in 19992000 under the direction of NEMCC Hall of Fame coach Mike Lewis. During that year at Northeast, Coln averaged 16 points per game, was 40-percent from beyond the three-point arc and finished with an eight-assist per game average in 36 outings with the Tigers. However, it was inside the friendly confines of the Alcorn Central High School gymnasium that Coln made a name for himself. Coln, who played for Alcorn Central from 1992-97, became Alcorn County’s all-time leading male scorer with 2,364 points during his
varsity career and, while with the Golden Bears, he also set school records for points (794) and three-pointers made (119). He set a school single-game record with 52 points against Potts Camp High School during his senior season in 1996-97. While at Alcorn Central, Coln also excelled on the track and still holds the school record in the triple jump at 41-feet, 8-inches. Coln returned to his home town to coach Alcorn Central after the graduating from the University of Louisiana at Monroe and led the Golden Bears to a 24-9 mark during the 200304 season. While at Louisiana-Monroe, Coln earned his stripes and was the eighth-ranked junior in the nation in three-point field goals made per game and the twenty-sixth ranked player overall nationally with an average of 3.0 three-pointers an outing during the 2001 campaign. Coln finished his two-year career in Monroe, La., fifth all-time with 157 three-pointers in 432 attempts and is second behind Larry Carr in players who registered just two years with the Indians (now Warhawks). When not on the hardwood at LouisianaMonroe, Coln earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physical Education and Health.
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