Suraz Eastes
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- Email:
- seastes@suscc.edu
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- Title:
- Head Coach
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- City:
- Montgomery
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- State:
- AL
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- Phone:
- 872-316-1172
Bio
Suraz Eastes, a 20-year coaching veteran on the high school level, is entering his first year as an assistant coach on the collegiate level.
Eastes previously served as an assistant coach to Lakenya Knight the last 5 seasons at Jeff Davis highschool now known as JAG highschool. During this stint, Eastes also served as head basketball coach for the Central Alabama Jaguars (semi-Pro Team) where he finished the 2020-21 season undefeated at 17-0
Prior to joining Lakenya Knight staff at Jeff Davis, Eastes served as the assistant basketball coach at St. Jude Educational Institute under head coach William Brown's boy's program and for Karimah Collins, head coach for the girl's program. During his 10-year stint at St. Jude, Eastes helped lead the boy's program to 2 of 3 state titles and helped the girls to two back-to-back final four high school state appearances. First in school history on the girl's side.
Before joining St. Jude, Eastes served 3 years as the assistant basketball coach under head coach Anthony McCall at Montgomery Academy High School. During his tenure at MA, Eastes would help lead MA to three area championships and the state finals where they would fall short of achieving the school's first-ever state boys' basketball championship
Eastes would get his start at coaching under the guidance of his college coach Larry Chapman who helped Eastes secure his first assistant coaching job at Lyman Ward Military Academy now known as Southern Prep,
"I want to first thank God and secondly thank Coach Brown for an amazing opportunity to join his staff and the Bison family."