Keystone College Athletics

Derrick Haynes returned to Keystone College for his first year as a volunteer assistant coach with the men's basketball team in the 2015-16 season, helping the Giants post six wins on the season including three over squads that qualified for the CSAC playoffs.  Haynes, who attended Keystone Junior College from September 1981 to June 1982 as a student, brings nearly two decades of basketball coaching experience to the Giants’ bench.
 
Haynes spent 17 season coaching some of the greatest basketball talents to come out of New York City from 1994-2011 where he was as the associate men’s basketball coach at Brother Rice High School.  Haynes coached five McDonald’s All-American honorees including Felipe Lopez (St. Johns), Kenny Satterfield (Cincinnati), Andre Barrett (Seton Hall), Durand Scott (Miami), and 2011 NCAA Champion and MVP Kemba Walker (Charlotte Bobcats).  Haynes also mentored NCAA Champion Russell Robinson (Kansas) and Keydren Clark (St. Peters), who led the nation in scoring from 2003-2005. 
 
Other formers notable players coached by Haynes include Anthony Glover and Kyle Cuff (St. Johns), Gary Saunders (Georgia Tech), Bevon Robbin (Fordham), Steve Burtt Jr. (Iona), Jason Wingate (Manhattan), Chris Fouch (Drexel), Melvin Johnson (VCU), Kadeem Jack (Rutgers), and Jermaine Sanders (Cincinnati).
 
At Brother Rice, Haynes was responsible for the daily aspects of programs operations including varsity, junior varsity, and freshman team participation as well as supervising assistants and managers.  Haynes also coordinated travel and study sessions along with teacher, parent, and coach conferences.
 
In 20 seasons at both Brandeis and Brother Rice, Haynes’s teams compiled a 352-86 record and he holds a New York State Federation honor as being the only assistant coach to have won both the P.S.A.L and C.H.S.A.A. New York City Manhattan championships.  Additionally, his teams were ranked in the U.S.A. Today Top-25 from 1994-2004 and again in 2009.
 
Haynes guided Brother Rice to 11 Manhattan Divisional championships, 6 New York State (C.H.S.A.A.) titles, and five New York State Federation championships and his 1999 Rice Raider squad posted an impressive, 27-1 record before being named Hoops U.S.A. National champions.  
 
Since 1992, Haynes has been a juvenile counselor with the Division of Youth and Family Justice in New York City and is also the executive director of Building Renovation Inner City Construction Services, Inc.  Haynes previously worked as a commercial broker for Kennedy Funding Financial, Inc. for two years after spending seven years as a financial and purchasing assistant at Columbia University.