HOMETOWN: Wingate, N.C.
BIRTHDATE: June 25, 1989
EDUCATION: B.S., UNC Pembroke, 2015
COACHING: Woodside High, assoc. head coach, 2015-17
Team Loaded North Carolina AAU, head coach, 2015-17
Catawba, assistant coach, 2018-22
Hampton, assistant coach, 2022-present
A veteran of the high school ranks, AAU basketball and at the college level, Derrick Wall enters his second season with the Hampton coaching staff after spending four seasons as an assistant coach at Catawba. During his four-year tenure at Catawba, the Chiefs posted an overall record of 65-45 (.590). They won the 2019 South Atlantic Conference championship and advanced to the NCAA Division II Regional Tournament while posting a 25-8 (.758). Catawba recorded a 20-10 record and advanced to the NCAA Championships again in 2019-20.
Wall began his coaching career as the associate head coach at Woodside High in Newport News, Va. Wall helped lead the Wolverines to the No. 3 ranking in Class 6A as well as winning the district and regional championship while advanced to the semifinals of the state tournament.
Simultaneously, he coached Team Loaded North Carolina in the prestigious Adidas Gauntlet Shoe Circuit.The team won 88 percent of their games and were ranked in the AAU Top 10 in the nation.
Wall has tapped into his international contact to assist players fulfill their dream of playing professional basketball overseas. He has coached and mentored more than 40 players who have gone on to play Division I basketball as well play professionally in the NBA Euro League, Euro Cup, Adriatic League and other FIBA leagues.
He is a 2015 graduate of North Carolina Pembroke where he earned a bachelor’s degree in sports management.
