Former Winthrop great Tyson Waterman joins the men's basketball staff at Southeastern Louisiana for the 2014-15 season.
Inducted into the Winthrop Athletics Hall of Fame in 2007, Waterman led the Eagles to back-to-back Big South Conference titles and the school’s first two trips to the NCAA championship tournament. He ranks fourth on the Winthrop all-time scoring list with 1,461 points and is third all time in assists with 469. He ranks among the Winthrop career leaders in 10 offensive categories.
In 1996, Waterman was voted the Big South Conference Rookie of the Year, twice voted to the All-Big South Conference first team and once on the All-Big South second team. Following graduation, Waterman played professionally in Yugoslavia and the Netherlands. In 2001 his No. 41 jersey was retired and the framed jersey now hangs in the Eagle Room of the Winthrop Coliseum.
Waterman served as the Head Boys Basketball Coach of Believe Prep Academy in Rock Hill, South Carolina, from 2010–14. Prior to Believe Prep, he spent the 2009-10 season as the head coach of the American Basketball Association’s (ABA) Charlotte Crossovers. Â
