FSU Men's Basketball Camp: Camp Staff
Leonard Hamilton - Head Coach
7th Season At Florida State
21st Season As a Collegiate Head Coach
Leonard Hamilton knows what it takes to build a winning program.
He knows the steps he must take and the directions he needs to follow. He knows which roads to turn down and which paths will take him where he needs to go. He knows when he is about to reach his destination and he knows how to make the right moves in order to achieve his goals.
Now in his fifth season at Florida State, he is on course to achieve the goals he established for the program when he arrived in Tallahassee. As he continues to put the many features of his Florida State program solidly into place, he has the Seminoles positioned to break into the national spotlight and to become the elite program he knew they would when he became the seventh head coach in school history in 2002.
Hamilton has guided Florida State to the post season in two of the last three seasons and led the team to a fifth place finish in the ACC in 2006. The Seminoles won 20 games and earned the third best ACC record in school history in advancing to the second round of the NIT. Hamilton guided Florida State to a victory over No. 1 ranked Duke on March 1, 2006 to mark the second time in school history the Seminoles had defeated the nation's No. 1 ranked team.
Led the 2007 team to quarterfinals of the NIT. Led FSU to it's first ever win at Cameron Indoor Stadium, coming from 17 down to defeat DUKE. Coach All-American and soon to be NBA 1st rounder, Al Thornton.
Stan Jones - Associate Head Coach
Stan Jones is in his seventh season as the associate head coach at Florida State and in his 13th season as a coach on the collegiate level. He has helped guide seven teams into the postseason and coached nine all-conference players in his first 10 years at the collegiate level. Jones helped Florida State advance to the second round of the NIT in both 2004 and 2006, has attracted four consecutive top-15 recruiting classes to Tallahassee and coached only the second All-ACC First-Team selection in school history during his first four years at Florida State.
Jones was instrumental in attracting the nation's No. 1 recruiting class to Florida State in 2003. Four different college basketball outlets - Rivals.com, the Official College Sports Network, Hoopmasters.com and the Louisville Courier Journal - ranked the Seminoles' recruiting class as the nation's best. It marked the first time in Florida State men's basketball history that the Seminoles had recruited the nation's top class. He was named one of college basketball's top 25 recruiters in 2004.
Not only has Jones been influential in attracting some of the nation's top talent to play basketball at Florida State, but his coaching ability has helped develop those talented players on the court. With Jones on the staff, the Seminoles won 20 games, finished fifth in the ACC and advanced to the second round of the NIT in 2006. Florida State advanced to the second round of the NIT and won 19 games in 2004. The Seminoles' appearance in the 2004 NIT marked the first time Florida State earned a postseason berth since 1998 and its win total was the Seminoles' highest since the 1997 season.
The Seminoles have defeated seven top-10 ranked teams in his first four years at Florida State including No. 1 ranked Duke in 2006, No. 3 ranked Wake Forest in 2005 and No. 7 ranked North Carolina in 2004. The Seminoles' victory over No. 1 ranked Duke in 2006 marked the second time in school history Florida State had defeated the nation's top ranked team.
Andy Enfield - Assistant Coach
Andy Enfield, a former assistant coach with the Boston Celtics and the Milwaukee Bucks, is in his third season as an assistant coach at Florida State. Enfield has worked at the highest level of basketball and with many of the games' stars and is the nation's most sought after shooting instructor by both professional and college coaches and players.
Enfield was an assistant coach with the Celtics from 1998-2000 - a time during which he worked with head coach Rick Pitino in building the franchise into a play-off contending team. While in Boston, Enfield worked closely with five-time All-Star Paul Pierce, the Celtics first round draft choice in 1998. Pierce was named to the NBA All-Rookie team as he averaged 16.5 points and 6.4 rebounds during the strike-shortened season. The Celtics continued to improve in his second season with the club as they finished with 35 victories - 16 more than they had earned the previous season.
Enfield also worked as an assistant with the Bucks from 1994-96 as they, too, drafted well and began a growth period that helped the franchise return to the playoffs. During his first season in Milwaukee, the team showed a 14-game improvement from the previous season and found itself in the hunt for a spot in the playoffs until late in the season. Enfield tutored Glenn Robinson (the No. 1 overall selection in the 1994 NBA Draft) and four-time All-Star forward Vin Baker. Robinson averaged 21.9 points and Baker 17.7 as they formed one of the highest scoring and best shooting duos in the league that season.
Corey Williams - Assistant Coach
Corey Williams, the only assistant coach in the ACC who has earned an NBA Championship ring as a player, is in his second season at Florida State. One of 43 NBA Draft picks to have been recruited and coached by Leonard Hamilton, Williams has developed the reputation as an effective and tireless recruiter who is annually credited with attracting top talent and then coaching that talent to achieve at the highest levels.
Williams was an assistant coach at Oral Roberts from 2000-07 and a player under Hamilton at Oklahoma State during his playing career from 1989-92. He had returned to his alma mater for a short period of time before joining the Florida State staff in June of 2007. Williams brings a wealth of recruiting success and very deep recruiting roots with him to the Seminoles' program.
Williams helped lead Oral Roberts to a pair NCAA Tournament appearances as a coach and led Oklahoma State to consecutive NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 appearances as a player.
Williams was an assistant coach for eight seasons at Oral Roberts where he helped lead the Golden Eagles to an average of 18 wins a season including 20 or more wins in each of the last three seasons and appearances in the NCAA Tournament in each of the last two seasons. Oral Roberts finished with a 23-11 record and won the Mid-Continent Conference Tournament championship in 2007. Among its 23 wins during the 2007 season was a victory over No. 3 Kansas on the road at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kan.
As Oral Roberts' chief recruiter during his tenure there, Williams is credited with assembling the recruiting classes that allowed the Golden Eagles to become one of the top teams in the nation. Among the players he is credited with recruiting are Caleb Green, A two-time All-American and the first three-time Player of the Year in Mid-Continent Conference and Ken Tutt the 2006 Mid-Continent Tournament Most Valuable Player. Williams helped attract a majority of the players that dotted the Golden Eagle's roster and the Mid-Continent All-League teams.
Williams played collegiately at Oklahoma State from 1989-92. He is the 13th all-time leading scorer in school history with 1,320 career points. Williams played two seasons under Hamilton at Oklahoma State and helped lead the Cowboys to consecutive NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 appearances under Eddie Sutton in 1991 and 1992. The Cowboys were ranked 14th in the final Associated Press poll of the 1991 season and 10th in the final coaches' poll following the 1992 season.
Williams was drafted by both the Chicago Bulls of the NBA and the Kansas City Chiefs of the NFL. He was drafted by the Chiefs the despite the fact that he had not played football since junior high.
Williams, 37, earned his bachelor's degree in education from Oklahoma State in 1992. He and his wife Nicole, have two children: Jourdan (8) and Corey, Jr. (4).
Jacob Ridenhour - Director of Operations
Auburn, 1995 - 2004: Florida State, 2005 - 2006
Second Season at Florida State
Jacob Ridenhour is in his third season as the Director of Basketball Operations and in his fourth season as a member of Leonard Hamilton's staff at Florida State. In his role as the Director of Basketball Operations this season, he brings knowledge of the position from his experience with Auburn University in the same capacity from 2000-2004.
Ridenhour has been integrally involved in the inner workings of two major Division I basketball programs for nearly 15 years. He began his career at Auburn as a team manager in 1993. He worked his way through the department eventually to Director of Operations at Auburn.
While at Auburn, the program reached new heights. Teams during Ridenhour's tenure reached three NCAA tournament appearances, two Sweet Sixteen appearances capped off by an outright Southeastern Conference Championship.
Prior to joining the Seminoles, Ridenhour has been involved in numerous parts of basketball all over the world. Most recently, Ridenhour participated in Basketball Without Borders and traveled with the NBA to Dakar, Senegal and Johannesburg, South Africa. He also ran events at The Island Shootout in Nassau Bahamas.
