Bryant Lassiter joins Nassau Community College as Head Women’s Basketball Coach with a strong background in collegiate and professional basketball, both as a coach and player.
Prior to his arrival at Nassau, Lassiter served as the Head Women’s Basketball Coach at NCAA Division III SUNY Old Westbury from 2021 to 2024, competing in the Skyline Conference. During his tenure, he coached the NCAA Division III Statistical Champion in rebounds per game and helped develop a player who earned First Team All-Conference honors, as well as another who was named to the Skyline All-Sportsmanship Team.
Before his time at Old Westbury, Lassiter was an assistant women’s basketball coach at NCAA Division II New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) from 2016 to 2020. While at NYIT, the program reached the ECC Championship game 3 of the four seasons, won the ECC title in 2019, and advanced to the NCAA Tournament in both 2017 and 2019. Lassiter helped develop numerous standout players, including an ECC Rookie of the Year, four First Team All-Conference selections, three Second Team, three Third Team honorees, and six All-Metropolitan selections.
Lassiter began his coaching career on the men’s basketball side, serving as an assistant coach at NYIT from 2014 to 2016.
As a player, Lassiter had a decorated career at NYIT, where he remains the program’s all-time leading scorer with 1,913 points. He also ranks second in career steals, free throw percentage, and three-point field goals, and fifth in assists. He earned multiple honors, including ECC First and Second Team All-Conference, as well as First and Second Team All-Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association (MBWA).
Following college, Lassiter played professionally with the Harlem Globetrotters and also competed internationally in Puerto Rico and Ecuador.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in Business Management from NYIT and later received his MBA in Sports Management from Grand Canyon University.
Lassiter is married to his wife Kelly, and together they have two children, Jayson and Jordyn.
