April 19, 2007

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. - St. Bonaventure men's basketball coach Mark Schmidt has set his coaching staff.

Jeff Massey and Dave Moore have both been named assistant coaches. In addition, Dino Presley will remain on staff as an assistant coach while Jake Luhn will also remain at St. Bonaventure as director of basketball operations.

Massey and Moore both worked with Schmidt at Robert Morris University - Massey for the past two seasons and Moore last season. Presley came to St. Bonaventure last June, and Luhn has been at St. Bonaventure since the summer of 2003.

Massey spent the past two seasons working with Schmidt at Robert Morris, where he helped the Colonials to records of 15-14 and 17-11. Robert Morris also won 19 Northeast Conference games over those two seasons. Massey was responsible for coaching the perimeter players as well as assisting in recruiting.

In the 2004-05 campaign, Massey was director of basketball operations at Owens Community College in Toledo, Ohio. In addition to his work within the basketball program, he also was part of student enrichment and athletics, an organization that assisted student-athletes in academic advising, class scheduling and tutoring.

A 1995 Xavier graduate with a degree in liberal arts, Massey was a two-year letterwinner for the Musketeers. He was named the Midwestern Collegiate Conference Newcomer of the Year in 1993-94, when he averaged 12.7 points and 2.1 rebounds per game and helped guide Xavier to the third round of the NIT. In his senior season, Massey served as team captain and led the Musketeers in scoring (18.9 ppg), steals, free throw percentage and blocked shots as Xavier advanced to the NCAA Tournament.

Prior to Xavier, Massey played two seasons at Owens Community College, where he finished as the program's all-time leading scorer with 1,894 points, a total that also ranks ninth all-time in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) record books. Massey is the only NJCAA player in history to be named the national player of the year twice (1992, 1993) and was also a two-time most valuable player of the NJCAA national tournament. Owens Community College honored him by retiring his jersey (No. 27), the first in school history, in 1997.

After his collegiate career, Massey spent four seasons playing professionally for teams in France and Poland.

A native of Elkhart, Ind., Massey also holds a master's degree in counseling from Xavier. He and his wife, Jonelle, were married last August.

Moore also was an assistant at Robert Morris last season. Prior to that, Moore spent three years as an assistant varsity boy's basketball coach at Lakota East High School in West Chester, Ohio.

From 2000-02, Moore served as an assistant coach at NCAA Division II Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tenn., specializing in game preparation. He also recruited the Memphis, Nashville, Cincinnati and New Orleans areas and served as the program's academic tutor.

Between 1998 and 2000, Moore served was an assistant coach at the College of Mount Saint Joseph, an NCAA Division III institution in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Moore got his start in college coaching as an assistant at his alma mater, Bethel (Tenn.) College. A 1998 graduate, he earned a bachelor's degree in history with a minor in secondary education. A four-year letter-winner as a guard at Bethel, Moore served as team captain during the 1996-97 season and led the club in both three-pointers and assists. Moore earned a master's degree in education from Christian Brothers in 2002.

Luhn was an assistant coach last season after serving as director of basketball operations for his first three seasons with the Bonnies.