NEW YORK — Columbia males’s basketball head coach Jim Engles has introduced the hiring of Austin Nisbett as an assistant coach.
No stranger to Morningside Heights, Nisbett returns to Columbia after spending the 2022-23 season on the College of Tennessee at Martin as director of basketball operations. He was a graduate assistant on Columbia’s employees for the 2021-22 season.
“We’re excited to welcome again Austin to our employees,” Engles mentioned. “His expertise, mixed along with his familiarity of Columbia, will drastically profit our program on and off the courtroom.”
At UT Martin, Nisbett oversaw all logistical elements of this system’s day-to-day operations together with scheduling, journey, compliance, and recruiting visits. He offered administrative assist for the pinnacle coach and assistant coaches whereas coordinating this system’s video, analytics, and graphics operations. His different duties for the Skyhawks included directing undergraduate supervisor employees and aiding with the operations of Ryan Ridder Basketball Camps. UT Martin’s 2022-23 season was capped by a semifinal look within the Ohio Valley Convention Basketball Championship.
“I’m extraordinarily grateful to have the chance to rejoin coach Engles’ employees,” Nisbett mentioned. “Columbia is a particular place, and I’m excited concerning the continuity of our roster with the blokes which might be returning, lots of whom I labored with throughout my time as a graduate assistant. I am unable to wait to get to work serving our gamers and this program.”
Through the 2021-22 season at Columbia, Nisbett labored beneath Engles and assisted coaches and full-time assist employees members with administrative duties, crew journey, observe preparation, on-court operations and participant improvement. He additionally acted as video coordinator, breaking down movie and growing statistical databases of personnel to help the Lion teaching employees with scouting, roster administration and building of developmental plans.
Previous to his first stint at Columbia, the Ormond Seashore, Florida native served as an assistant video coordinator for the Duke girls’s basketball crew from 2018-21. At Duke, Nisbett was part of an Atlantic Coast Convention powerhouse program beneath head coaches Joanne P. McCallie (2018-20) and Kara Lawson (2020-21). He coded crew and participant movie for video breakdown and statistical evaluation whereas aiding the Blue Satan teaching employees produce scouting experiences. He additionally assisted coaches with participant improvement and acted as a scout crew participant.
Outdoors of the collegiate realm, Nisbett was a video assistant for the USA 3×3 girls’s nationwide crew within the spring of 2021. In that position, he assisted Lawson and the teaching employees with crew video operations throughout their spring coaching camp periods.
Nisbett graduated from Duke in 2021 with a bachelor’s diploma in political science. He accomplished his Grasp’s diploma in sport administration at Columbia in Might 2023.
