Earl Lawrence a graduate of Clark Atlanta University returns home, after spending two seasons as the assistant coach for Young Harris College. During season 2020-2021 the program had 2 all-conference performers and lead the Peach Belt Conference in 3’s made per game and 3pt percentage. In the 2021- 2022 season, the Mountain lions rose as high as number 1 in Division II in 3’s made per game and 3-point percentage and would finish top 14 for the year. Also highlighted by two freshmen of the week recognitions.
Before Young Harris, Lawrence spent one season as an assistant coach at Central Baptist College in Conway, Arkansas. While at Central Baptist, the Mustangs posted their best winning percentage ever at .710, finishing with a 22-9 record overall and a co-American Midwest Conference regular-season championship in addition to their third straight selection to the NAIA National Tournament. Under Lawrence’s development, Tyrone Alston and Darius Williams earned NAIA All-America honors marking the first time CBC has ever had two All-Americans in the same season.
Lawrence also coached two seasons of AAU basketball for the Georgia Stars, a Nike Elite Youth Basketball League team from 2017-19.
Lawrence, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, played four years of collegiate basketball. He played two years in the NAIA at Middle Georgia State College and two years at the NCAA Division II level at Clark Atlanta. After finishing his college career, he played professional basketball in Mexico.
Before Jordan’s new role, he acted as an assistant coach at Clark Atlanta, The University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and most recently he was the associate head coach at Morehouse College.
During Jordan’s time at CAU, he played point guard for the Panthers and graduated in 2009 with a degree in business administration with a concentration in marketing. He went on to spend eight seasons as an assistant coach at CAU and was part of three Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship teams, including the regular season championships in 2009-2010 and the SIAC tournament champions in 2011 and 2017.
During his last two seasons at Clark Atlanta, Jordan served as the recruiting coordinator. He lead the Panthers to a 45-18 overall record with back-to-back NCAA Division II tournament appearances.
He then followed former CAU head coach Darrell Walter to serve for two years as an assistant coach at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. There Jordan recruited four-star guard Markquis Nowell and Ruot Monyyong, a top-50 JUCO recruit. Nowell and Monyyong earned 2019-20 first-team all-Sun Belt honors while helping lead the team to a 21-12 record and a regular season championship. Another Jordan recruit, Kamani Johnson, was named all-Sun Belt third team.
Most recently, Jordan was the associate head basketball coach at Morehouse for the 2021-2022 season. During his time at Morehouse, the team won the Eastern Division regular season championship and tied the school’s longest winning streak (18 consecutive games).
“What you can expect to see from Clark Atlanta Men’s Basketball is a well-disciplined, high-energy team that always leaves everything they have on the court,” said Jordan. “We are going to be ambassadors of CAU both on and off the court, and we’re going to continuously raise the bar of what it means to be a Clark Atlanta Men’s Basketball player.”
