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Celebrating Black History Month: Miami's Charlie Coles

Saturday, February 11th: Charlie Coles, Miami Men's Basketball Head Coach (1994-2012)

Charlie Coles began his collegiate coaching career as an assistant at Detroit University in 1982. Coles assumed his first collegiate head coaching role at Central Michigan University from 1985-91. He went back to the high school ranks from 1992-94 at Toledo Central Catholic before returning to his alma mater in 1994, serving as an assistant coach at Miami until 1996 when he was then hired to guide the RedHawk program until his retirement in 2012. During his time at MU, Coles became the winningest coach in Miami history with a record of 263-224.