Louisiana native Larry Cordaro begins his second season as an assistant coach for Southeastern after spending two seasons at Southland Conference rival UT Arlington where he served on former Mavs’ coach Eddie McCarter’s staff.

 

Cordaro became one of the youngest division one coaches in the country when he was hired by McCarter in 2004-05. UTA reached the Southland Conference Tournament both seasons that Cordaro was in the Metroplex and placed two members - Steven Thomas and Jarrett Howell – on the 2005-06 All-SLC squad.

 

Among his duties with the Mavericks included serving as the camp director of the UTA Men's Basketball Camp, which saw a 40 percent increase in attendance in his first season.

 

Before his stop at UTA, Cordaro was Director of Basketball Operations at LSU for two seasons where he assisted with on-campus recruiting, academic monitoring, coordinating pre-game meals and organizing meetings with the LSU men's basketball booster club. Cordaro also served as the co-director of John Brady's basketball camps and served as the video coordinator during the season.

 

Cordaro began as a student assistant for the Tigers in 2001 and in three years assisting, LSU reached the post-season every season with one NCAA Tournament appearance and two NIT berths.

 

Cordaro brought a vast knowledge of summer camp operations, working with some of college basketball's most knowledgeable coaches after working at The University of Miami (Fla.), Arizona, UAB, Birmingham-Southern, New Orleans, Texas, Middle Tennessee, LSU and Joe Dean, Jr.'s Dixie Basketball Camp.

 

Cordaro played basketball at Ruston High School, where he graduated in 1998. He was a member of the Xavier University men's basketball team before transferring to LSU where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting in 2002 and a master of science in sport management in 2004.

 

Cordaro is single and resides in Hammond