Bruce M. Martin, who has served as a head coach both on the
collegiate level at Davis & Elkins College in Ohio (2009-13), and in the
European League with the Ockelbo (Sweden) Basketball Club (2004-05), comes to
FAMU from the University of Wyoming, where he spent the past school year as an
academic advisement coordinator for Men’s Basketball and Swimming and Diving.
His resume includes assistant coaching tours at the
University of Texas-Pan American (2007-09); at his alma mater, Clemson
University (1998-2003); at the University of Wyoming (1997-98); and Francis
Marion University (1995-97).
Aaron Holmes is a St. Petersburg, Florida native, who comes to FAMU his high school alma mater, Catholic High School, where he had served as boys head coach this past school year (2013-14).
A Tulane University graduate (2011), who began his
collegiate playing career at Florida State (2006-07), Holmes’ resume includes a
brief stint as an assistant basketball coach at Tampa’s Berkley Preparatory
High School (2011-12); three years as founder and director of the Aaron Holmes
Elite Basketball Academy (2011-14).
Donald L. Anderson comes to FAMU from Jacksonville (Fla.)
University, where he had been the Dolphins’ Director of Basketball Operations
since July of 2012.
He served as head coach at Gettysburg College from 1985 to
1989, before moving to Mount Saint Mary’s College as senior assistant head
coach from 1989 to 2002, where he helped
them reached the NCAA Tournament in 1995 and 1999, as well as the National
Invitational Tournament in 1996.
A graduate of Franklin and Marshall College (1982), Anderson
also served a stint in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), as the
senior associate head coach at Coppin
(Md.) State University under legendary firebrand Ron “Fang” Mitchell, from 2002
to 2006. He helped guide the Eagles to the 2003-04 MEAC regular season title
and a berth in the 2004 MEAC Tournament finals against FAMU.
Prior to landing at Jacksonville, Anderson turned in a
five-year run as an assistant coach at Binghamton University (2007-2012),
helping lead them to the 2009 NCAA Tournament. He also worked one season as an
assistant coach at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (2006-07).