Kyle Cregan is in his first season as the video coordinator for the Florida State men's basketball team after two years on Leonard Hamilton's staff as a graduate manager. He is responsible for managing the Seminoles' multi-million dollar video unit in the Florida State Basketball Training Center. The unit was designed specifically for the Seminole men's basketball program and allows the coaching staff to provide the best teaching and development information to each of the players in the program. The system allows for the instantaneous study of practice and game video which helps each player improve his skills and abilities on a daily basis. The extensive work done by the Florida State staff in the area of player development has seen eight Seminoles drafted by seven different NBA teams in the last eight years. In his role as a graduate manager at Florida State in 2011, Cregan helped the Seminoles reach the Sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament and finished in third place in the ACC standings with an 11-5 record. Florida State has finished in the top four of the ACC standings and has won 48 games and has played in consecutive NCAA Tournaments for the first time since the 1992 and 1993 seasons with Cregan on Hamilton's staff. Cregan was instrumental in assisting the coaching staff in practice and individual workouts where he gained valuable on the court experience working with 2010 NBA draft picks Solomon Alabi and Ryan Reid and 2011 NBA lottery pick and two-time ACC Defensive Player of the Year Chris Singleton. Before joining Hamilton's staff at Florida State in 2009, he was an assistant men's basketball coach at Flagler College. He evaluated and recruited high school and junior college athletes throughout the United States. Cregan prepared and presented detailed scouting reports, and was responsible for all basketball operations and fundraising. Cregan was responsible for the recruitment and signing of three student-athletes in his one year as an assistant coach at Flagler. Two of his signees became two-year starters for the Saints since joining the program in 2009. Cregan was a four-year letter winner for the Flagler College men's basketball team and helped the Saints advance to the NAIA Division II Sweet 16 in both 2004 and 2005. The Saints won both the Florida Sun Conference regular season and tournament championships during his freshman season. He then helped the Saints make the transition from an NAIA institution to an NCAA Division II school during his junior and senior seasons. Cregan was the head boys' junior varsity basketball coach and assistant boys' varsity coach at River Ridge High School in New Port Richey, Fla., in 2008. He designed a year-long practice schedule that encompassed individual skill training, strength and speed training and was responsible for monitoring his players' academic progress. His team finished with a 17-1 record. While earning his master's degree at Florida State in 2011, Cregan taught `Theory and Practice of Basketball' in the Department of Sport Management. He was also an ESE teacher at River Ridge High School. Cregan earned his bachelor's degree in business administration from Flagler College. He was a four-year letterwinner for men's basketball and a winner of a Florida's Bright Futures Scholarship. He received his master's degree in sport management from Florida State in 2011. |
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