Wagner College head women's basketball coach Terrell Coburn has announced the addition of assistant coach Cheri Eleazer to the 2024-25 Seahawks' staff prior to the upcoming season.
Eleazer brings two decades of Division I experience to Wagner’s staff, most recently serving as the Assistant Athletic Director and Head Women’s Basketball Coach from 2021 to 2024 at SUNY Maritime.
Beginning in 2004, Eleazer served as an assistant coach at Nassau Community College, then Saint Joseph’s College - Patchogue, and UMBC. Eleazer has also served as Director of Operations for Hofstra University's Women’s Basketball program.
Eleazer has spent time in the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), serving as the head coach for iDream, CT Elite and Gauchos AAU travel teams from 2021 to 2024, where she oversaw travel operations, practice and game scheduling, instilled core fundamentals to her players, planned season tournaments, and managed coaching staff.
To go along with her extensive basketball resume, Eleazer is also a certified personal trainer, founding CBC Total Fitness in 2010.
CBC Total Fitness is an education-based fitness program designed for long term independent client fitness, that includes not only one-on-one and group training programs for high level athletes, but corporate fitness programming and specialized programs for aging populations as well.
Additionally, Eleazer earned her Bachelor of Arts in May 2004 from the University of Hartford before completing her Sports Industry Essential program from Columbia in 2019.
During her playing career at Hartford, Eleazer helped the Hawks attain their first-ever America East Conference title and NCAA Tournament appearance (2002). Eleazer was named the America East Rookie of the Week during her freshman season, leading Hartford in assists and steals as a sophomore.
After Hartford, Eleazer was a participant in the National Women's Basketball League (NWBL) as a player and Director of Operations for the College Tour from 2004 to 2006, as well as a player on the Women’s Professional Football League (IWFL) from 2008 to 2018.
Eleazer and the rest of the Seahawks will begin their 2024-25 season at the Spiro Sports Center on Monday, November 4 at 7:00 pm against the Saint Elizabeth Eagles.
