Adam Todd-Thomas has been named as the new Women’s Basketball Head Coach at Grays Harbor College.
Coach Todd-Thomas most recently was an Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach at Southwestern Christian University (NAIA) in Bethany, OK. Coach Todd-Thomas brings experience from across the country and internationally to Grays Harbor with previous coaching stops at Florida National University in Miami, Florida, Global Squad Australia 18U and the Bayside Bombers Basketball Association before spending the last 2 seasons at his Alma Mater Southwestern Christian University.
In 2018, Todd-Thomas broke into the collegiate coaching ranks, working as an Assistant Coach for Women’s Basketball and the Director of Basketball Operations for both the Men’s and the Women’s programs at Florida National University. In his first year with the program, Todd-Thomas helped the Conquistadors to a 17-13 regular season record and a run to the USCAA final four in the inaugural season of the program before they went NAIA. Along with this Todd-Thomas developed two NAIA all-conference selections and two honorable mention NAIA All Americans.
Todd Thomas also served as the Team Australia 18U Head Coach and Director of Recruiting for the Alexander Basketball Academy Global Squad. An AAU Program based on the east coast. His program saw multiple kids go on to play at the NCAA D1, D2, NAIA and NJCAA levels while playing against Adidas Gauntlet teams on the AAU Circuit.
Prior to this Todd-Thomas was the Head Coach for the Bayside Bombers in 2016 and also an assistant for their senior men’s program. Along with this Todd-Thomas was the Head Varsity Coach for his High School, Faith Lutheran College Redlands, Capturing 4 Conference Championships on both the Men’s and Women’s side.
Originally from Brisbane, Australia, Todd-Thomas won 3 out of 4 Conference championships at Faith Lutheran College Redlands High School and is the schools all time assists, three pointers made and the winningest player ever. He then played four seasons at Southwestern Christian University and was a part of two standout seasons where the team went 21-13 while appearing in one NCCAA National Championship and appeared in the NAIA National Rankings a year later.
Todd-Thomas has had players who have gone on to play professional basketball in Australia, Germany, Lithuania, Portugal, Mexico, Malta and the NBA G-league.
Todd-Thomas graduated from Southwestern Christian University in 2018 with a degree in Sports Management and again in 2019 from Florida National University with a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and Marketing.
Coach Todd-Thomas shared, “Firstly, I would like to thank the former athletic director Will Ryder and our new athletic director Tom Sutera along with the hiring committee for giving me this opportunity to be the next head women’s basketball coach at Grays Harbor College. I am very excited to join the Grays Harbor campus community and the surrounding community of Aberdeen. I can promise the loyal fans that the new era of Grays Harbor Women’s basketball will be hard working like our community and an exciting brand of basketball to watch. Getting the opportunity to lead a program that has a history of success and returning it to its previous greatness, while impacting the lives of young people through education and athletics is an absolute blessing. This is an exciting adventure for all of us and I am very grateful for the opportunity.”
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