Takayo Siddle


Takayo Lemont Siddle is an American basketball coach who is the current head coach of the UNC Wilmington Seahawks men's basketball team.

Playing career

Siddle was a basketball standout at John Motley Morehead High School in Eden, North Carolina, averaging 27.0 points, 6.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game as a senior. He attended Hargrave Military Academy from 2004 to 2006 and helped the team reach the prep school championship game. Siddle played college basketball at Gardner–Webb under Rick Scruggs. As a sophomore, Siddle averaged 8.6 points per game. In his junior season, Siddle scored eight points in a 84–68 Runnin' Bulldogs win at Rupp Arena vs. 20th-ranked Kentucky to advance to the final four of the 2007 2K Sports College Hoops Classic in Madison Square Garden.

Coaching career

After his playing career, Siddle became an assistant coach at Hargrave Military Academy for one season under Kevin Keatts. He then returned to his alma mater to work for as an assistant coach at Gardner–Webb for four seasons under both Chris Holtmann and Tim Craft.
Siddle then reunited with Keatts as an assistant coach at UNC Wilmington, where the Seahawks won back-to-back CAA regular season and conference tournament titles in 2016 and 2017. He was named interim coach of the Seahawks in March 2017.
He followed Keatts as an assistant at NC State from 2017 to 2020 before returning to UNC Wilmington as head coach on March 13, 2020 as the 13th head coach in Seahawk history. Siddle signed a five-year deal with a base salary of $300,000 plus supplemental compensation.

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