Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray comes to Eastern Florida State College after being the Director of Recruiting for Vanderbilt University last season.

The Memphis, Tennessee native has also been an assistant coach at McNeese State College from 2021 to 2023 and was at the University of Mississippi as the coordinator of men's basketball operations from 2018 until 2021.

In 2014 Gray took over as the head coach at Southwest Mississippi Community College and compiled a 61-39 record in four seasons. He led the Bears to the NJCAA Region 23 semifinals in each of his final two seasons and led them to three seasons of at least 17 wins.

His team was also named the NJCAA Men's Basketball Academic Team of the Year for the second consecutive year with a team GPA of 3.59, the second-highest cumulative GPA in the history of NJCAA Men's Basketball. The Bears became the first MACJC men's basketball team to ever win the award in 2015-16, boasting a 3.42 GPA. In just his second season as Southwest head coach, Gray led the Bears to a MACJC state championship for the first time in 53 years.

Gray replaces Jeremy Shulman who was at Eastern Florida State College for 14 seasons and 346 wins which is the most in program history.

Gray began working in the college basketball world as a graduate assistant at Mississippi College, where he earned his master's degree in 2011. Gray also attended Mississippi College as an undergraduate, collecting a bachelor's degree in 2009.

Gray is married to Ashley and they have a daughter Charlotte.