NC State hires Heath Schroyer as new assistant basketball coach

Heath Schroyer was hired by N.C. State on Thursday to complete coach Mark Gottfried’s basketball staff.

Schroyer, 44, had been the head coach at Tennessee-Martin the past two seasons and had previous stops as a head coach at Portland State and Wyoming. Schroyer, who will be an assistant at N.C. State, replaces Bobby Lutz.

“N.C. State University is a program full of rich tradition and it’s an honor to serve in this role,” Schroyer said in a statement released by the school. “I have the utmost respect for the administration, the other coaches and the Wolfpack Nation. My family and I are excited to move to the Raleigh area and get started.”

Schroyer’s contract is for two years at $310,000 per year.

After five seasons with the same staff, Gottfried hired Schroyer and Butch Pierre to makeover his staff after the Wolfpack suffered its first losing season (16-17) of Gottfried’s tenure.

Schroyer led UT-Martin to a 41-28 record in his two seasons. His coaching experience had been mostly on the West Coast, he was also an assistant at UNLV and Fresno State, but he is a product of the DeMatha High School in Hyattsville, Md.

“He has done an outstanding job at UT-Martin, and has had success as both a head coach and as an assistant,” Gottfried said in a statement released by the school. “Heath’s programs have traditionally shown great improvement, he is a strong on-floor and in-game coach, and is a proven recruiter at the highest level.”

This story was originally published April 21, 2016 at 3:52 PM with the headline "NC State hires Heath Schroyer as new assistant basketball coach."