Wagner College Athletics

Kenyon Spears enters his fifth season as a member of the Seahawk staff and second season as Associate Head Coach after serving as an assistant coach during his first three seasons on Grymes Hill. 

During his tenure at Wagner, Spears has played a vital role in the development of the program from a mentoring, recruiting and game-planning perspective. His duties include on and off campus recruiting, game and practice preparation, opponent scouting, and travel for the Seahawks. 

In addition to helping the Seahawks to a school-record 23 wins in 2007-08, he helped guide Wagner to a 15-3 NEC record, which tied for the most conference wins in school history. Spears has been a driving force in the program which has won 39 combined games over the last two seasons, which is second in the NEC to Robert Morris. 

In 2005-06, Wagner compiled a 7-2 non-conference mark, which was the best winning percentage (.778) in NEC history. That season, the Seahawks defeated Rhode Island of the Atlantic 10 and battled eventual national-runner-up UCLA to the wire, before dropping a two-point decision at famed Pauley Pavilion. 

Spears was a hard-nosed guard and captain for Mike Deane at Lamar University, where he led the Cardinals to the 2000 Southland Conference Championship and the school’s first NCAA berth in 17 years. A student-athlete at Lamar from 1997-01, Spears was a junior on the Cardinals' team that won the 2000 Southland Conference Tournament Championship and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 17 years.

The Nome, TX native served as an assistant under Deane during the 2002-03 season at Lamar and was reunited with his former coach at Wagner in 2005-06.