Coaching Staff

Charles Harral

Men - Basketball - Head Coach (interim)

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After a year being the lead assistant to Kelly Green, Charles Harral finally gets a chance to lead his own team after spending several years learning from the best.  Harral joined the Matadors’ coaching staff last August, bringing a ton of championship-level experience with him. Harral’s career began at Texas Tech University, where he was a student-manager under a pair of top NCAA Division I coaches: ten-year head man James Dickey, and then NCAA Hall of Fame Coach Bobby Knight. While at TTU, Harral experienced being part of a coaching staff that went to both the NCAA Tournament as well as the finals of the National Invitational Tournament. Harral then stayed in the Lone Star State and became a graduate assistant at the University of Texas-El Paso under another pair of top coaches: Billy Gillespie and Doc Sadler. In the first year after Harral’s arrival, the Miners experienced the largest loss-to-win turnaround in NCAA history. Harral was a part of Miners’ teams that won back-to-back Western Athletic Conference titles and NCAA Tournament berths. Harral continued to ascend the coaching ladder as one of the lead assistant coaches at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith. Harral not only recruited, coached practice and supervised the academics of the athletics, he also helped lead UAFS to a 33-win season and an NJCAA Championship. 2006 was the season that Harral first became a colleague of one of the members of the Green family, joining the staff of South Plains College in Levelland, Texas as assistant coach & recruiting coordinator under Steve Green, Kelly’s brother. It took two seasons at SPC for Harral to experience another championship when the Texans won the NJCAA title in 2008. Harral spent the 2009 & 2010 seasons back at the NCAA Division I level as an assistant at Weber State University in Utah, where his teams once again found the winner’s circle as back-to-back Big Sky Regular Season Champions and NIT Tournament participants.
Harral earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Exercise Sports Science in 2003 from Texas Tech University, and then completed his Master of Arts Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies at UTEP. Harral and his wife, Nicole, who also works at AWC in the Financial Aid Office, now make their home in Yuma.

Kyle Isaacs

Men's Basketball - Assistant Coach

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There were more than a few Matador fans last year that came to ‘The House’ and inquired as to the whereabouts of Kyle Isaacs. It showed how active Isaacs was a Matador assistant coach for two years until Kelly Green until Kyle got the opportunity for a full-time spot as assistant coach/recruiting coordinator at Texas A&M University-Kingsville last season. While at TAMUK, Isaacs not only was on the Javelinas’ bench but also taught in the physical education department. When Green departed AWC this past spring and Charles Harral took over as head coach, one of his first moves was to give Isaacs the chance to show the Matadors what he’s learned as he rejoins the program as a full-time assistant. Isaacs has the rare distinction of being part of both Green brothers’ basketball programs at one time or another, having been a student manager for Kelly’s brother, Steve, at South Plains College in Levelland, Texas from 2002 through 2004. After his 2 years with the Texans, Isaacs got the chance of a lifetime: to be the student manager for legendary coach Bob Knight at Texas Tech University. While at “Tech”, Isaacs was part of the Red Raiders’ squad that went to the ‘Sweet 16’ of the 2005 NCAA Tournament. Knight put a lot of trust in Isaacs, making Kyle responsible for the break-down of opposing teams, recruitment and individual workouts with the players. After being promoted to graduate assistant, he was part of the filming of the hit reality TV show “Knight School” and was on the bench when Coach Knight became the winningest coach in NCAA Men’s basketball history with his 880th career victory.
Isaacs also teaches in AWC’s Physical Education and Wellness Department. Isaacs earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Exercise and Sports Science while at TTU, and just earned his Master’s Degree in Sports Management in 2009.
 

Carter Roe

Men - Basketball - Assistant Coach

He and new Matadors’ Head Coach Charles Harral both arrived in the AWC Men’s Basketball office within weeks of each last year, and spent the season side-by-side as Kelly Green’s assistants. Now with his first year of AWC coaching experience under his belt, Carter Roe will know Harral’s system better than anyone else as he begins Year 2 on the Matadors’ coaching staff. Roe had little time to worry about adjusting in 2010, joining the staff last September and immediately becoming the team’s Strength and Conditioning Coordinator. However, last year certainly wasn’t Roe’s first taste of college coaching, since his first full-time assistant coaching experience also came at the junior college level at McCook Community College in Nebraska. Like at AWC, Roe spent much of his time at MCC coordinating the team’s strength and conditioning program, monitoring the grades of the student-athletes and teaching weight training and college success courses. Before that, Roe was a graduate assistant coach for two years at the place that he earned his Bachelor’s (in Public Relations) and Master’s (in Educational Leadership) degrees: Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. While at NAU, Roe helped the Lumberjacks’ basketball team experience some of the larger successes in the history of the program: a new single-season mark for wins in a season (20) and their first-ever appearance in the NCAA Tournament in 2006. Roe’s main duties while at NAU were putting together scouting reports, coordinating team travel, film exchange, study hall and every on-court coaching opportunity. While Roe enjoyed his time in the Cornhusker State, it was the lure of coming home to his alma mater that brought him back to the AWC campus, since he earned his Associate of Applied Science Degree here back in 2002.

Men - Basketball - Assistant Coach

The legend continues to grow just a little more every year that Jim Amick continues his tenure and influence on the Matadors’ Men’s Basketball Coaching Staff. To longtime Matador Basketball fans, what they probably think of most when considering Amick’s legacy is his main head coaching stint from 1978 through 1990. That’s when he made the Matadors’ Men’s Basketball teams one of the most dominant junior college teams of the 1980’s, leading them to three conference titles and a pair of NJCAA Tournament berths. In fact, Amick’s teams never won less than 18 games in any of those 12 seasons. But for those that have really paid attention throughout Amick’s association with Matador Athletics, they realize what a longtime contribution Amick has made to the program as a whole for over 30 years. After stepping down in 1990, Amick provided guidance to Dave Babcock as he led the Matadors to four straight Region I Playoff berths before heading to the NBA. Amick took over for one more season at the helm in 1996-97, and then when Kelly Green arrived, Green convinced Amick to stay on as an assistant, and used Jim’s valuable influence and wealth of knowledge over the next 14 seasons to lead the Matadors to four Region I Championships, four NJCAA Tournament appearances and 13 consecutive Region I Playoff berths. Charles Harral saw enough of what Amick’s influence meant last season to ask him to stay on when Harral ascended to the top spot this past summer, and so Year #15 of Amick’s assistant coaching tenure (and his famed seat at the end of the bench) will commence this year. Amick’s final overall head coaching record was an amazing 292-91 mark. Jim and his wife, Diane, have been long standing members of the Yuma community.