Chris Richardson
Assistant Coach | 5th Season
Chris Richardson is in his fifth season as a full-time assistant with the Mules and seventh overall with two years spent as a graduate assistant coach. He came to UCM at the start of the 2014-15 season after spending two seasons as the head assistant at Delta State.
During his first six seasons in Warrensburg, the Mules have gone 104-73 and made one trip to the NCAA-II Regional Tournament.
In his first season as a full time assistant in 2015-16, he helped guide the Mules to a 21-9 record and a 13-6 mark in MIAA action. The Mules finished second in the regular season conference standings and had a runner-up finish in the MIAA Tournament.
In six seasons at UCM, the Mules have had three 20+ win seasons, made the NCAA postseason, played in the MIAA Championship game and made the MIAA Tournament four times.
At Delta State, Richardson helped engineer one of the nation’s most impressive two-year turnarounds, taking a program that won just six games during the 2011-12 season to winning 38 games over the next two seasons, culminating with a berth in the NCAA-II South Region Finals in 2014.
As recruiting coordinator, he signed 2014 and 2015 GSC Freshmen of the Year, 2014 Gulf South Player of the Year Willie Readus and the 2015 State Farm College Slam Dunk Champion Laquavious Cotton.
Richardson also served as an assistant coach at Fairmont State, the University of Charleston, and Arkansas Tech University, where he worked alongside Coach Karleskint in helping the Wonder Boys to a 30-2 record and number one national ranking during the 2009-10 season.
In 10 seasons of college coaching, Richardson has been a part of teams that have an overall record of 181-114, which includes five 20-win seasons, two conference championships, three NCAA tournament appearances and one conference tournament championship. During that span he has coached 22 all-conference players and three All-Americans.
Richardson began his career as an intern with the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies, where he worked for General Manager Chris Wallace. With the Grizzlies, Richardson was responsible for assisting Wallace and the basketball operations staff in preparations for the NBA Draft and summer free agency period. He also assisted the Grizzlies media relations staff with production of the team’s media guide and content for Grizzlies.com.
The Charleston, W.Va. native is a 2008 graduate of West Virginia University. He earned his master’s degree in Kinesiology from UCM with a concentration in Sport Management. Richardson resides in Warrensburg with his wife, Katie, and their son, Cory.
