Men's Basketball
George Wright-Easy
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- wrighteasyg19@ecu.edu
- Phone:
- (252) 737-5529
George Wright-Easy is in his third season as an assistant coach at East Carolina after being appointed to the position in July 2019. He works primarily with the Pirates’ front court players.
During his first two seasons in Greenville, he assisted in the development of Jayden Gardner, who was a two-time all-conference player and led The American in scoring and rebounding as a sophomore before finishing second in both categories as a junior.
In his first season with the program, Wright-Easy helped Gardner raise both his scoring and rebounding averages, which were tops in The American, as well as his field goal percentage.
He has also been directly involved with enhancing the Pirates’ recruiting profile by aiding in the construction of a top 100 class that included R.J. Felton, Vance Jackson, Marlon Lestin and Alexis Reyes.
Prior to joining the ECU coaching staff, Wright-Easy five years as the head varsity boys' basketball coach at Dexter Southfield School in Brookline, Mass. During his time at Dexter Southfield, he had numerous players earn all-conference honors, coached four 1,000-point scorers with four players receiving Division I basketball scholarships under his tutelage.
Wright-Easy led DXSF to its first-ever playoff appearance in 2015 followed by three more from 2017-19. He was named the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council's (NEPSAC) Class C Coach-of-the-Year in 2018 after engineering the school's Class C championship run. This past season, he led DXSF into the Class B tournament. During his first season, he set the school record for wins, tied it two years later then broke it in 2018-19.
In addition to coaching Dexter Southfield, Wright-Easy has worked heavily in the grassroots/AAU circuit, founding WrightWay Skills. More than a dozen of the players in the AAU program he established in 2014 earned Division I scholarships as well as sending numerous players to NESCAC institutions.
He began his collegiate coaching career as a graduate assistant at Providence College under coach Ed Cooley. The Friars reached the quarterfinals of the NIT in 2013 before winning the 2014 BIG EAST Tournament to the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Bryce Cotton, who played for the NBA’s Jazz, Suns and Grizzlies, earned first-team all-conference honors and was named Big East tournament MVP.
While at Providence, Wright-Easy also worked with 2016 consensus All-American and NBA First Round Draft pick Kris Dunn as well as 2013 second round pick Ricky Ledo, who spent three years in the league with Dallas Mavericks and New York Knicks.
He also served as a mentor to Nerlens Noel, who was the No. 6 overall pick in 2013 NBA Draft, from an early age in Everett, Mass. Noel spent one season at the University of Kentucky, where he was named SEC Rookie and Defensive Player-of-the-Year, before embarking on his professional playing career.
Wright-Easy spent his vocational career in secondary education. He served as an assistant boys' basketball coach at historic Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, which produced Basketball Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing, and spent three years as a special education teacher in the Everett (Mass.) Public School System.
A native of Jamaica, Wright-Easy was a two-sport athlete at St. Francis (Pa.), playing both Division I football and basketball. He graduated from St. Francis in 2007 with a Bachelor of Science degree in sociology and criminal justice.
During his first two seasons in Greenville, he assisted in the development of Jayden Gardner, who was a two-time all-conference player and led The American in scoring and rebounding as a sophomore before finishing second in both categories as a junior.
In his first season with the program, Wright-Easy helped Gardner raise both his scoring and rebounding averages, which were tops in The American, as well as his field goal percentage.
He has also been directly involved with enhancing the Pirates’ recruiting profile by aiding in the construction of a top 100 class that included R.J. Felton, Vance Jackson, Marlon Lestin and Alexis Reyes.
Prior to joining the ECU coaching staff, Wright-Easy five years as the head varsity boys' basketball coach at Dexter Southfield School in Brookline, Mass. During his time at Dexter Southfield, he had numerous players earn all-conference honors, coached four 1,000-point scorers with four players receiving Division I basketball scholarships under his tutelage.
Wright-Easy led DXSF to its first-ever playoff appearance in 2015 followed by three more from 2017-19. He was named the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council's (NEPSAC) Class C Coach-of-the-Year in 2018 after engineering the school's Class C championship run. This past season, he led DXSF into the Class B tournament. During his first season, he set the school record for wins, tied it two years later then broke it in 2018-19.
In addition to coaching Dexter Southfield, Wright-Easy has worked heavily in the grassroots/AAU circuit, founding WrightWay Skills. More than a dozen of the players in the AAU program he established in 2014 earned Division I scholarships as well as sending numerous players to NESCAC institutions.
He began his collegiate coaching career as a graduate assistant at Providence College under coach Ed Cooley. The Friars reached the quarterfinals of the NIT in 2013 before winning the 2014 BIG EAST Tournament to the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Bryce Cotton, who played for the NBA’s Jazz, Suns and Grizzlies, earned first-team all-conference honors and was named Big East tournament MVP.
While at Providence, Wright-Easy also worked with 2016 consensus All-American and NBA First Round Draft pick Kris Dunn as well as 2013 second round pick Ricky Ledo, who spent three years in the league with Dallas Mavericks and New York Knicks.
He also served as a mentor to Nerlens Noel, who was the No. 6 overall pick in 2013 NBA Draft, from an early age in Everett, Mass. Noel spent one season at the University of Kentucky, where he was named SEC Rookie and Defensive Player-of-the-Year, before embarking on his professional playing career.
Wright-Easy spent his vocational career in secondary education. He served as an assistant boys' basketball coach at historic Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, which produced Basketball Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing, and spent three years as a special education teacher in the Everett (Mass.) Public School System.
A native of Jamaica, Wright-Easy was a two-sport athlete at St. Francis (Pa.), playing both Division I football and basketball. He graduated from St. Francis in 2007 with a Bachelor of Science degree in sociology and criminal justice.
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