Alabama A&M Athletics

Michael Morgan now enters his fifth season at Alabama A&M as a women’s basketball assistant coach. Morgan is a highly-respected recruiter with a well-rounded background on and off the basketball court. Coach Morgan also focuses on post play with the forwards and centers of the Lady Bulldogs.

This past season was the most successful in the four years Morgan has been with the team. The 17 Lady Bulldog wins were a new program record for victories against Division-I opponents, and the team looked prime to have a say in the SWAC Basketball Tournament.

Sophomore forward was a key factor down low, as she earned First-Team All-SWAC honors, Newcomer of the Year and was named an HBCU All American by BOXTOROW after leading the Bulldogs in a variety of categories.

After winning 11 games in 2017-18 and 13 in 2018-19, Morgan had a hand in the Lady Bulldogs securing double-digit wins for consecutive years for first time since 2010-12.

Prior to his tenure in Huntsville, Morgan spent three seasons serving as an assistant women’s basketball coach on Sharon Thompson’s staff at East Mississippi Community College.

MACJC opened the 2015-2016 campaign with a 13-9 mark during the first half of the season and finished the back end of the schedule unbeaten while qualifying for the EMCC campus. Coming off a 12-12 season in 2014-2015, ScoobaThe Lions participated in postseason play each of the three seasons Morgan was on the team.
 
During Morgan’s first season in the Mississippi junior college ranks, the 2013-14 EMCC women’s team enjoyed the program’s most successful season in five years. With EMCC coming off back-to-back losing seasons prior to his arrival in Scooba, the Lions registered a 16-9 overall record and their 11-1 league mark secured the program’s third MACJC North Division regular-season championship within a six-year span.

Morgan arrived at East Mississippi after spending the 2012-13 season as an assistant women’s basketball coach at Saint Joseph’s College, an NCAA Division II program in Rensselaer, Ind. While serving as the Pumas’ recruiting coordinator, he also had scouting responsibilities of the team’s opponents as well as with the day-to-day development of SJC’s post and perimeter players.
 
Prior to entering the collegiate coaching ranks, Morgan acquired head coaching experience at a pair of Christian schools in his home state of Florida. While completing coursework for his bachelor’s degree in biblical studies with an emphasis in youth from Trinity College of Florida, Morgan spent two seasons serving as the head girls’ basketball coach at Tampa-based Oldsmar Christian School before taking on identical head coaching duties for a season at Faith Baptist Christian School in Brandon.
During his one season at FBCS, Morgan guided the 2011-12 Lady Eagles to a 48-8 record and a runner-up finish in the Sunshine Independent Athletic Association. Prior to that, Morgan inherited a struggling women’s hoops program at Oldsmar Christian School and promptly directed the Lady Eagles to a two-year composite record of 37-16.  He also assisted the boys’ basketball program while at Oldsmar.
 
Morgan’s circuitous basketball playing career landed him at Trinity College of Florida, a New Port Richey-based school affiliated with the National Christian College Athletic Association, in 2007. 

After playing his freshman season at North Carolina A&T University and transferring to North Carolina Wesleyan College for his sophomore year, Morgan ended up at Trinity College of Florida following a two-year leave from college activity. His return to the basketball court was met with individual success, as Morgan claimed 2007-08 All-South Region First Team honors.
 
While also finishing as runner-up in the South Region’s Player of the Year voting, Morgan ranked among the NCAA Division II national leaders in several statistical categories as a junior. The two-time team captain for the Tigers capped his collegiate career by earning honorable mention all-region laurels as a senior in 2008-09.
 
Upon graduating from Eastern Wayne High School in Goldsboro, N.C., in 2001, Morgan spent two years serving in the United States Air Force. While dividing his enlistment time between Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas and Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina, he managed to find time to lead his respective base league teams in scoring. Morgan spent his early prep years at Walter L. Sickles High School in Tampa.
 
Morgan is married to Mrs. Sharon Morgan.