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Men's Basketball
STEVE JOYNER, Head Coach
 Steve
Joyner is in his 17th season as head coach of the JCSU
Golden Bulls His career record is 303-187.
A native of
Winston-Salem, NC Joyner’s success in basketball began at Atkins High
School where he was the second leading scorer on the 1969 undefeated
North Carolina State 4-A Championship Team. With a stellar high school
career, Joyner became the star point guard for the Golden Bulls from
1969-73. After a stint as an assistant coach at Virginia Union
University, he received his first head coaching position with Smith’s
women’s team in 1980, building the Golden Bulls into one of the CIAA’s
most competitive programs. He guided the women’s team to its first
appearance in the NCAA South Atlantic Regional Tournament. To get
there, Smith won its first CIAA Southern Division Championship and
finished second in the conference tournament.
After compiling a
92-87 record with the women’s team, Joyner took over as the head men’s
coach in 1987. For over two decades, he has taken the men’s program to
unprecedented levels, establishing Smith as one of the most feared
teams in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
Throughout his
16-year tenure as coach, Joyner has collected numerous accomplishments
during his career. Joyner is the winningest men’s basketball coach in
Golden Bulls history, having recorded 303 victories. He led the Golden
Bulls to their second consecutive CIAA western Division Title in 2002.
In 2000, his team finished fourth in the CIAA, third place finishes in
1991, 1993 and 2003, second place finishes in 1992, 1998 and 2002, and
CIAA Tournament Champions in 2001. He was selected as the CIAA Coach
of the Year and NCAA Division II South Atlantic Region Coach of the
Year in 1992, 1997, and 2001. In the 2000-01 season, he led the team
to victory in the Harbor City Classic in Baltimore, Maryland, the
Legacy Classic in Charlotte, North Carolina, the CIAA Western Division
Championship, the University’s first ever CIAA Tournament
Championship, the University’s first ever NCAA South Atlantic Regional
Championship and first appearance in the NCAA Elite Eight National
Tournament held in Bakersfield, California. His Golden bulls completed
their historical season by being ranked #10 in the final NCAA poll and
#2 in the Final Sheridan Broadcasting Network poll of black colleges.
In all Joyner has taken the Bulls to six CIAA Divisional Titles and
has produced 24 All-CIAA performers and five All-Americans. In
addition, his up-tempo style produced JCSU’s top two career scorers,
Columbus “Green Light” Parker and Mark Sherrill, who now serves as
Joyner’s top assistant coach at Smith.
Joyner is an active
member of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Basketball
Coaches Association (CIAA-BCA) and National Association of Basketball
Coaches (NABC). Joyner is an NCAA Division II Congressmen and member
of the All-American Committee. He just ended a four-year term as a
member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) South
Atlantic Regional Ranking Committee. He serves as a member of the
McCrorey YMCA Board.
The Bulls success on
the court is matched by the success of the student-athletes in the
classroom. Joyner strongly believes that students who excel in
academics give him an advantage as a coach.
“Watching athletes
mature is an accomplishment in its self,” said Joyner. “When athletes
graduate, you know that you have developed the student spiritually,
physically, and mentally.”
Under Joyner, Smith
consistently ranks at the top of the CIAA cumulative grade point
average. At Smith, where academics are always priority, Joyner is a
vindicator for education first for all players.
Joyner earned a
bachelor’s degree in health and physical education from Johnson C.
Smith University and a master’s degree in guidance and counseling from
Virginia State University. Joyner and his wife Narell live in
Charlotte, North Carolina. They have two sons and a daughter: Steve
Jr., who serves as the top assistant women’s basketball coach at N.C.
Central University, Brian and Janel. |
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Steve Joyner is
the all-time winningest coach
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