Jermaine Woods is in his third season as head coach of the Coppin State women's basketball program after serving two seasons as the team's Associate Head Coach. He was promoted to the helm on May 26, 2022.

This past season, Coppin advanced to the MEAC Semifinals for the first time since 2016 and posted impressive non-conference road wins at FIU and Pittsburgh. The victory against the Panthers was CSU’s first-ever against a Power Conference program. Earning the four seed in the MEAC Tournament, Laila Lawrence and Faith Blackstone earned major MEAC awards, 1st Team All-Conference accolades and BOXTOROW HBCU All-America honors. Angel Jones also picked up 2nd Team All-Conference recognition.   
                                                                                     
In his first season as head coach, Woods guided the Eagles to non-conference wins Winthrop, Saint Peter's and St. Francis (Pa.) and a fifth seed in the MEAC Tournament. Mossi Staples and Jewel Watkins both earned Second Team All-Conference honors while Watkins was placed on the league's defensive team.  In a victory over Delaware State, CSU set a then school-record with 12 3-pointers and the squad set a single-season record with 181 3-point field goals.

Woods helped cultivate a winning culture within the program that won a school-record six games against non-conference Division I opponents during the 2021-22 season and had its first winning campaign in nearly a decade.  During his two seasons at Coppin, the Eagles placed five players on All-MEAC Teams, including Jaia Alexander who was named the 2022 MEAC Player of the Year. Aliyah Lawson also garnered All-MEAC accolades in both of those seasons.
 
Along with Alexander and Lawson, Staples and Jalynda Salley also earned All-Conference accolades while Watkins received All-Rookie Team recognition.
 
Prior to arriving in Baltimore in 2020, Woods developed a reputation as one of the Nations’ top player developers and recruiters, serving as an assistant coach for seven years at three Division I institutions. Most recently, Woods spent three seasons as an assistant coach at Wake Forest where he worked primarily with the Demon Deacons’ guards. 

With Woods’ help at Wake Forest, Gina Conti developed into one of best guards and distributors in program history while Alex Sharp scored over 1,000 career points while ranking as one of the school’s top rebounders ever. Woods also guided Amber Campbell to All-ACC Defensive Team honors, marking the first time in nearly 15 years that a Deac was represented on the team, and coached Elisa Penna, the program’s first All-ACC honoree in three years.
  
In his final season at Wake, Woods helped the Demon Deacons to a pair of ACC Tournament wins over North Carolina and Virginia Tech as the team had its first .500 season since the 2016-17 campaign.
 
Before Wake, Woods worked as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for two seasons at Old Dominion University. Under his watch as recruiting coordinator, the Lady Monarchs’ 2016 class featured an ESPN top-100 prospect, a McDonald’s All-American nominee and a signee who was the leading scorer on a team that ranked in the top 15 nationally, according to ESPNW. His class in 2017 was the top-ranked recruiting class in the State of Virginia, and both of his classes were ranked the best in Conference USA and in the top-45 nationally.
 
Throughout the 2016-17 season at ODU, Woods helped Jennie Simms to AP All-America honors as well as C-USA Player of the Year accolades.  Simms was three-time first Team All-C-USA recipient, finished her career ranked fifth all-time in scoring and was the 18^th overall pick in the 2017 WNBA Draft.
 
Woods got his start in collegiate coaching at Virginia Tech where he was responsible for bringing in a recruiting class that ranked 19th nationally by ESPNW, the highest-rated recruiting class in program history.

As a player, Woods spent one season at Belmont Abbey College before playing his final three seasons at Christopher Newport University where he was a D3hoops.com All-American and a two-time All-South Region selection, Dixie Conference Tournament MVP and First Team honoree. He was named the league's Newcomer of the Year and broke the team's 3-point record as a junior before topping his own record as a senior. He holds the Christopher Newport single-game, season and career records for three-pointers made.
 
Woods was the leading scorer on the only team in CNU history to advance to the Elite 8 and ended his career ranked 10th on the program's all-time scoring list. Woods spent time as a high school and AAU coach after earning his bachelor’s from Norfolk State University in 2011.