NCCU - Durham Sports Club

Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Trei Oliver, Head Football Coach at North Carolina Central University. Oliver was named the 2022 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference “Football Coach of the Year”. In his third season as head football coach at his alma mater, he led the Eagles to their first conference championship in six years and an overall record of 10-2, including a victory over Jackson State in the Cricket Celebration Bowl – the National Championship for Historically Black Universities and Colleges. The team was just the sixth team in school history to win nine games in the regular season, and the third to win 10 or more in total.

Oliver was named as the 24^th Head Football Coach in December, 2018. In the prior 15 seasons (2004-18) as a coach at four different universities, Oliver was a part of only one season with fewer than seven wins. During that time, his teams had 124 victories for an average of more than eight wins per year and a winning percentage of .725.

Oliver’s first coaching stint at NCCU was as a defensive backs and wide receivers coach, recruiting coordinator and special teams coordinator from 2003-06. The Eagles captured back-to-back CIAA championships with consecutive trips to the NCAA Division II playoffs in 2005 and 2006, and were crowned as the black college football national champions following an 11-1 season in 2006.

He and his wife Yvette, also an NCCU graduate, are the proud parents of a son, Reggie.

Mark Your Calendar

5/17/23 – Valerie Gillespie, Archivist, Duke University
6/7/23 – Scholar-Athlete Awards LUNCHEON
6/21/23 – Special Guest Speaker

7/18/18 – Granville Eastman, Head Football Coach, NCCU

Our Guest Speaker for this week’s meeting will be Granville, Eastman, interim Head Football Coach at North Carolina Central University. With 20 years of collegiate coaching experience to his credit, Granville Eastman joined the North Carolina Central University football coaching staff in January 2014. He served as assistant head coach, defensive coordinator and safeties coach until his promotion to interim head coach on Dec. 8, 2017.

Prior to joining NCCU, Eastman spent nine seasons (2005-13) as the defensive coordinator at Austin Peay State University in Clarkesville, Tennessee. During his 11 total seasons at APSU, he coached defensive backs and linebackers, and also served as special teams coordinator (2003-04) and interim head coach (winter 2013).

Eastman coached four seasons (1999-2002) at Tiffin University in Ohio, including the last three seasons as defensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator, while working with defensive backs and defensive line during his tenure.

A native of Toronto, Canada, Eastman secured his first coaching position at York University in his hometown, where he spent two seasons (1994-95) working with defensive backs.

He has interned with five NFL teams since 2002, lending his services to the Detroit Lions (2002), Arizona Cardinals (2004), Tennessee Titans (2006), Indianapolis Colts (2011) and Minnesota Vikings (2012).

Eastman also volunteers as a coach and mentor with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
8/1/18 – Alex Keddie, Director of Compliance, UNC
8/15/18 – Jay Smith, UNC Historian
9/5/18 – Tubby Smith, Head Men’s Basketball Coach, High Point University