Steve DeMeo was announced as the new head coach at Newberry College on Wednesday. DeMeo spent the past season as an assistant at UCF, where the Knights posted a 17-14 mark, and he worked with guard Jermaine Taylor, the Conference USA Player of the Year. Previously, DeMeo spent 10 seasons at Providence on Tim Welsh’s staff. An excellent recruiter, DeMeo was the leader of the Friars’ recruiting efforts during his tenure and was instrumental in many of their best players coming to the school. DeMeo followed Welsh from Iona after being an assistant there from 1995-98.
This is not the first head coaching job at the college level for DeMeo. Prior to reaching the Division I ranks, he spent five years as a junior college head coach, coaching at Bronx Community College from 1990-93 and Monroe Junior College in the Bronx from 1993-95.
Newberry College is a Division II school located in Newberry, South Carolina. It is located between Columbia and Greenville near Sumter National Forest.
