Tyrone Grady joined the Lenoir-Rhyne Men's Basketball coaching staff in the Spring of 2024 as an assistant coach.
The first-year assistant coach comes by way of Eastern New Mexico, where he served as an assistant coach for one season under current Lenoir-Rhyne Head Coach Brent Owen. In Grady’s first and only season of coaching at ENMU, Grady help ENMU finish with a 22-9 record, the most successful season in more than three decades. Grady also help lead the program to a Lone Star Conference Tournament Championship for the first time in 31 years and the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 20 years. Competing in one of the premier conferences across Division II.
Grady is no stranger to South Atlantic Conference as he spent a season at Coker University. While with the Cobras, he coached two conference honorees (Jordan Jones – second team; Mahmoud Bangura – all-freshman) and helped the team improve its season win total by seven games.
Prior to Coker, he was at Seward County Community College in Liberal, Kansas as the associate head coach. His duties included him serving as interim head coach for the 2021 season. During his time on staff, SCCC won four NJCAA Region VI and KJCCC West Conference championships in a row. Grady helped coach ten academic All-Americans, a top-five NJCAA academic team and two Phi Theta Kappa members. The minimum GPA standard for Phi Theta Kappa honorees is 3.5.
Grady also holds extensive experience at the high school level where he coached varsity boys' basketball (2015-18) and girls' basketball (2012-15) at Wichita West High School in Wichita, Kansas. Grady also spent time with the Next Level Hoops Academy AAU on the Under Armour circuit.
He founded Right Fit Hoops out of Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H. after coaching at McCool Junction High School in Nebraska following a brief professional playing career.
Grady played collegiate basketball at York University in York, Nebraska from 1997-01, where he was a three-time all-conference selection, a two-time all-region selection, and an All-American. During his time with the Panthers, he became the program leader in three statistical categories scoring 1,531 points, dishing out 715 assists, and snagging 189 steals. In 2015, York added him to the athletic department’s Hall of Fame.
Grady comes to Hickory with wife Shawnta and son Shaun-Carson. He finished a bachelor’s in education from York University in 2002.
