Drew Names Tang to Men's Basketball Staff
9/15/2003 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Sept. 15, 2003
WACO, Texas - Baylor University has added Jerome Tang to its men's basketball coaching staff, head coach Scott Drew announced Monday.
"Our coaching staff is very excited to be working with someone of the quality of coach Jerome Tang," Drew said. "He was able to make Heritage Christian Academy one of Texas' elite programs. He possesses all the qualities that the Baylor basketball program stands for: hard work, integrity, Christian values and a great basketball mind."
Tang, who spent the previous 10 years as head coach at Heritage Christian Academy in Cleveland, Texas, joins Matthew Driscoll and Mark Morefield on Drew's staff for 2003-2004. While Driscoll and Morefield followed Drew from Valparaiso, Tang provides a Texas connection to the coaching staff.
In his decade of service at Heritage Christian, Tang led the Eagles to four state championships and built the Eagles into one of the state's TAPPS powerhouses. His squad gained national attention in 2001, when HCA beat Tomball Banff Christian School 178-28 and one of Tang's Eagles, junior Cedric Hensley, scored 101 points.
Feeding off that success, Tang and Heritage Christian have become known for producing Division I athletes. Tang's best-known recent product is Vakeaton Wafer, a Florida State signee recognized nationally as one of the top 20 high school players in the country last year. Tang's last two squads featured other Division I signees in Elijah Miller (Houston), Marlon Pompey (Texas A&M), Lamar Hurd (Oregon State) and Tim Mayes (Richmond).
Tang also served as athletic director and youth pastor at Heritage Christian, a birth-through-high school private school that boasts just 145 students and just 30 high school students (10th-12th grades).
Tang and his wife Careylyen have a two-and-a-half-year-old son, Ayvan.
