Lynn Ramage was named interim head coach of ESU's women's basketball program on January 12, 2015.
Ramage coached ESU’s men’s basketball program for three years (from 1996-97 through 1998-99) and led the Warriors to the PSAC Tournament during the 1997-98 season. He was named PSAC East Coach of the Year in 1998 after guiding the Warriors to a second-place finish in the PSAC East.
Ramage, a 1993 graduate of West Liberty University, has more than 30 years of coaching experience at the high school, junior college and NCAA Division I, II and III levels.
He has 10 years of NCAA collegiate men’s basketball head coaching experience, most recently in an interim capacity at Emerson (Mass.) in 2011.
Ramage returns to ESU from Ross School in East Hampton, N.Y., where he served as associate athletic director and head basketball coach during the 2014-15 academic year.
Ramage has earned two collegiate Coach of the Year honors, being named PSAC East Coach of the Year in 1998 at ESU, and the NESCAC (New England Small College Athletic Conference) Coach of the Year at Connecticut College in 2002.
His first NCAA head coaching position was at Division I Morgan State (Md.), where he was interim head coach during the 1994-95 season.
He previously served as an assistant coach at Morgan State for four years following coaching stints at West Liberty (assistant women’s coach, 1984-86), Davis & Elkins (assistant men’s coach, 1986-88) and Chesapeake College, a junior college in Wye Mills, Md. (men’s head coach, 1989-90 season).
Ramage was hired as ESU’s head coach in October 1996 after a season as an assistant coach at Kutztown in 1995-96.
He coached two All-PSAC East selections at ESU in forward Al Munford (first team 1998, second team 1997) and guard Spencer Poulson (second team 1998), along with Juwan Justice, the PSAC East Rookie of the Year in 1999.
Ramage was head coach at Connecticut College for three seasons from 1999-00 through 2001-02, posting a three-year record of 53-21 with seasons of 19-5 in 1999-00 (NESCAC quarterfinals), 18-7 in 2000-01 (NESCAC semifinals) and 16-9 in 2001-02 (NESCAC quarterfinals), when he was named the league’s Coach of the Year.
He was head coach at Greensboro College (N.C.) in 2002-03 and 2003-04, going 23-27 in two seasons.
Ramage was dean of students, assistant athletics director and assistant basketball coach at Millersburg Military Institute (Ky.) in 2004-05 and 2005-06.
He served as head coach and physical education teacher for three years at Halifax County High School in South Boston, Virginia during the 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons.
After his stint at Emerson in 2011, he worked in athletics and residence life at Rancho Solano Private School in Phoenix, Arizona from July 2011 through February 2013.
A native of Lynchburg, Va. where he attended E.C. Glass High School, Ramage served in the U.S. Air Force for four years before enrolling at Frederick (Md.) Junior College, where he was an honorable mention All-America selection. He competed in basketball and track and field at West Liberty and was the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference champion in the triple jump in 1984.
Ramage has extensive camp experience both domestically and internationally. He has worked with Five Star Basketball Camps, Score Big Basketball (Trinidad), All-American Basketball Camp (Switzerland), as a lecturer at the Eastern Invitational, and with collegiate camps at Connecticut College, Kutztown and Morgan State.
His community work includes Big Brothers and Big Sisters, the Rotary Club, Boys to Men mentoring program in Baltimore, Special Olympics and the United Way.
