Fourth-year Head Coach Jarrett Lockhart is very familiar with basketball at the college level.
In the 2023-24 season, Lockhart helped produce the first All-American in LaGuardia Community College's men's basketball history, Arthur Dukes, who was named to the NJCAA 1st Team, and he was directly responsible for his development on and off the court. Dukes was also the 2023-24 CUNY and Region 15 Player of the Year and led the country in scoring at 30.9-point per game.
Before coming to LaGuardia, he spent the 2021-2022 season at Jackson College (MI) and before that was the Head Coach of Victory Rock Prep (post-grad) in Bradenton, FL. Lockhart also served as Director of Basketball Operations and Assistant Coach at Florida International University at the Division 1 NCAA level from 2014-2018.
In 2013-14 season as an assistant coach at Lincoln College of New England in Southington, Connecticut, Lockhart helped the school to one of the most successful seasons in program history, as the squad went to the NJCAA National Tournament for the first time in school history, and finished ranked eighth in the country. Other notable accomplishments were the team winning its first NJCAA Region 21 title and District 8 championship. The Wildcats finished the season with a 23-9 record, marking the school’s first-ever 20-win season.
He was also a student-athlete advisor at the school, where he oversaw academic responsibilities for student-athletes.
Lockhart earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Science and minored in African studies at the University of Pittsburgh, where he had a very successful basketball career from 1996 to 2000. He was a team captain and a three-year starter for legendary head coach Ben Howland while with the Panthers, averaging double-digit points for Pitt. He went on to play professionally for the Denain Voltaire basketball team for three seasons in Denain, France. He led that squad in scoring each year and helped the team advance to the French Cup in 2003.
As a Bronx, New York native, Lockhart attended Mount Saint Michael Academy, is the school's All-Time leading scorer where he won a state championship in 1995, while being named All-City & All-State, and was a top 50 player nationally during his high school career.
Lockhart was born in Fribourg, Switzerland. His father, Thomas Lockhart, played at Manhattan College and was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks in the fifth round of the 1976 NBA draft and played overseas for 20 years. Lockhart resides in Queens, New York and has two daughters, Bronx and Aiyanah.
