Jayson Gee, Winthrop University Associate Head Basketball Coach

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Sports Spectrum

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Episode 268

Jayson Gee just completed his first year as associate head coach of the Eagle basketball program. Gee has spent 29 years coaching collegiate basketball. Previously, he was the head coach at Longwood from 2013-2018.

In addition to his time at Longwood, Gee was also a head coach at the University of Charleston (1996-2003) in West Virginia and combined has a 202-175 record in his head coaching career. That is just the tip of the iceberg for his experience as an assistant or associate head coach at Youngstown State (1989-93), Ohio University (1993-96), St. Bonaventure (2003-06) and Cleveland State (2006-13).

The veteran hoops coach is also the author of The Battle for Brandon, a book that is a dramatic and compelling story about Jayson Gee and his wife Lynette and their son Brandon's courageous fight against child onset paranoid schizophrenia. The Gee family also worked with mass media veteran Chad Bonham to transform the book into a documentary that has received endorsements from Emmy Nominated and Golden Globe Award winning actress Jennifer Garner, WNBA MVP Tamika Catchings, former Pittsburgh Steeler Antwaan Randle El, and many more.

The 2015 recipient of the prestigious John Lotz Barnabas Award, Gee was also named one of the nation's top 10 assistant coaches by BleacherReport.com while at Cleveland State. The John Lotz Barnabas Award is presented annually to honor a basketball coach who best exhibits a commitment to Christ, integrity and encouragement of others, and lives a balanced life.
Gee took over at Longwood in 2013 to lead the program into its second season as a member of the Big South Conference. He produced the program's first All-Big South first and second team selections (five total) and sent four players on to play professionally.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk with Jayson about his journey to coaching, why we're so caught up in March Madness, where his faith foundation was born, his prescription to the supernatural and the powerful story of his son Brandon.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.5	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:19.7	This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with Jason G, the associate head basketball coach at Winthrop University, is brought to you by Compassion International.
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1:05.6	I promise you, you won't regret it.
1:08.3	Today on the podcast, we welcome Jason G to the program.
1:12.1	He is the associate head basketball coach at Winthrop University.
1:15.8	He was the former head coach at Longwood University from 2014 to 2018 and the former head coach at the University of Charleston from 1996 to 2003 and has a 202 and 175 record in his head coaching career.
1:33.0	His assistant head coaching stops included Youngstown State, Ohio University, St. Bonaventure, and Cleveland State.
1:40.8	In 2015, G was named the Fellowship of Christian Athletes John Lott's
1:46.7	Barnabas Award. And he's also the author of the book, The Battle for Brandon. And that's the
1:52.5	story of G's son's courageous fight against child onset paranoid schizophrenia. And we spend
1:59.6	a lot of time in this podcast hearing Jason G's story of his
2:03.7	son Brandon. We also talk a little March Madness with him and just what this time of year is
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