Young Harris College Athletics

Maurice Sumter begins his first season as the associate head coach for the Young Harris College women's basketball program.

Sumter comes to the Enchanted Valley after spending the two past two seasons as an assistant coach for the women's basketball team at Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina. Sumter served as interim head coach for the Blue Bears in January 2023 and led Livingstone to a 7-8 record.Sumter spent two seasons at Virginia State University In the two seasons at VSU Maurice took on various roles on the staff that include recruiting, academics, day-to-day and travel operations, and administrative duties. In Sumter's player development role, he led a front court that produced all-Americans in back-to-back seasons. Those two all-Americans went on to play professionally in Europe. In his two seasons with the Trojans they held an overall record of 55-9 and a conference record of 32-4 along with two regular season championships and a 2019 CIAA Tournament championship.

Prior to Livingstone, Sumter spent two seasons at Division III national powerhouse Christopher Newport University. In his tenure at CNU he executed responsibilities as the recruit coordinator, travel operations, camp co-coordinator, player development as well as opponent scouting. With with the Captains, he coached an all-American and two all-conference players.  Team accolades included a rank in the top 25 in multiple polls, regular season co-champions and conference tournament runner up and NCAA national tournament appearance. The Captains advanced to the sweet 16 in the 2020 national tournament before CoVID brought the season to an abrupt halt.

Sumter spent one season as assistant men's basketball coach at Harcum College where the team held a 22-9 record and a Region 19 regular season conference championship and tournament runner up. This Bears produced a NJCAA All-American guard and three other eventual NCAA Division I signees and numerous NCAA Division II signees. The 2016-2017 squad started the season as the number 21st ranked team in the country.  His role consisted of academics support, scouting, travel operations and player development.    

 
Sumter volunteered at Old Dominion University in 2015 where he was able to observe multiple functions of the program that became the eventual Conference USA champions.

Sumter served as a volunteer at Shaw University where they lost in the semifinals of the CIAA Tournament. He took part in the player development of two all-conference players and two players that went on to play professionally in Europe. 

Sumter entered the collegiate ranks after four years as an assistant coach and player development on the JV and varsity teams at Indian River High School in Chesapeake, Virginia. He also spent two summers with the Adidas Gauntlet powerhouse Team Loaded  where he assisted in coaching and recruited some of the top ranked high school players in the country.
 
A Norfolk, Virginia native by way of Alexandria, Virginia, Sumter was part of the very successful T.C. Williams High School program. In his tenure at T.C. Williams, he was named to numerous honors such as all-district player of the year, first team all-region and All-Metropolitan team in the D.C. area. He also led his team to a 25-4 record and to the regional semifinals where they fell to the eventual state runner-up.
 
He continued his playing career at Longwood University as the first ever Division I men's basketball player in school history.  Sumter, who served as the team captain,  led the team in scoring, steals and second in rebounding and blocks as a junior and a senior. In both seasons he was named first team All-Independent team and to the All-State third team.  He was also named Male Athlete of the Year at Longwood.  He was named top five greatest players of all time in the school's history by ESPN. Sumter finished his impressive career top five all-time leaders in scoring (1,604), rebounding (667), assists (274) steals (209) and blocks (135).
 
After completing his career at Longwood University, Sumter played three years professionally making stops in Holland, Portugal and Macedonia. Each season his team reached the playoffs with Sumter being the leading scorer (25 points per game) in Portugal and received All-Bosman and All-League honors. His playing career was ended after his third professional season due to an ACL injury.

Sumter earned his bachelor's degree in sociology from Longwood in 2013.

updated 07.24.23