Steve Prohm is an American basketball coach who is the current head coach of the Murray State Racers men's basketball

Murray State Racers men's basketball

Murray State Racers men's basketball program represents intercollegiate men's basketball at Murray State University. The school competes in the Ohio Valley Conference in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and play home games at the CFSB Center in Murray, Kentucky. Steve...

 team.

Early life

A native of Vienna, Virginia

Vienna, Virginia

Vienna is a town in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, it had a population of 15,687. Significantly more people live in zip codes with the Vienna postal addresses bordered approximately by Interstate 66 on the south, Interstate 495 on the east, Route 7 to...

, Prohm attended high school at Northwest Whitfield High School

Northwest Whitfield High School

Northwest Whitfield High School is a public high school in the Whitfield County, Georgia School District, USA. Colors are royal blue and burnt orange. The mascot is Bruin...

 and lettered in basketball for three years.

He attended college at the University of Alabama

University of Alabama

The University of Alabama is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States....

 where he worked as a student assistant coach and student manager for the Crimson Tide men's basketball

Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball

The Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball program has a history of being among the best of the Southeastern Conference . It trails only Kentucky in basketball wins, SEC tournament titles, and SEC regular season titles in the 12-member conference. The team is coached by head coach Anthony Grant,...

 team for five years. He graduated from Alabama in 1997 with a degree in education.

Coaching career

Prohm began his coaching career in 1998-99 as an assistant to Billy Kennedy at Centenary College

Centenary College

Centenary College can refer to:* Centenary College of New Jersey, a private college located in Hackettstown, New Jersey.* Centenary College of Louisiana, a private college in Shreveport, Louisiana....

. He followed Kennedy to Southeastern Louisiana University

Southeastern Louisiana University

Southeastern Louisiana University is a state-funded public university in Hammond, Louisiana, United States. It was founded in 1925 by Linus A. Sims, the principal of Hammond High School, as Hammond Junior College, located in a wing of the high school building. Sims succeeded in getting the campus...

, where he spent five seasons as an assistant before leaving for Tulane

Tulane Green Wave

Green Wave, the nickname of the sports teams of Tulane University, was adopted during the 1920 season, after a song titled The Rolling Green Wave was published in Tulane's student newspaper in 1920. From 1893 to 1919, the athletic teams of Tulane were known as the Olive and Blue for the official...

. In 2006 he rejoined Kennedy's coaching staff, this time at Murray State University

Murray State University

Murray State University, located in the city of Murray, Kentucky, is a four-year public university with approximately 10,400 students. The school is Kentucky’s only public university to be listed in the U.S.News & World Report regional university top tier for the past 20 consecutive years...

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After Billy Kennedy accepted the head coaching job at Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...

, Prohm succeeded him at Murray State's head coach.