Riley Maye

Riley Maye is in his first season as an assistant coach with the Coppin State women’s basketball team. Maye joins Coach Mosley’s staff for the 2026-27 season after serving as an assistant coach at Mount St. Mary’s the last two years where he was instrumental in curating offensive and defensive gameplans and adjustments, recruiting, scheduling and the development of its post players.
 
A former head coach at Harcum College (2020-24), Maye won 83 games in his four seasons at the helm before heading to Emmittsburg. Maye led the Bears to a 28-6 record during the 2023-24 season, reaching as high as third in the NJCAA poll, the highest ranking school history. The Bears went on to win a pair of games during the NJCAA Tournament, including a District B Championship, and he was selected as the District Coach of the Year.
 
Prior to his final season in Bryn Mawr, the Bears went 30-4 with a trip to the NJCAA Final Four during the 2022-23 campaign which saw Amaris Baker lead the Nation in scoring and earn  First Team All-America honors.  Under Maye’s tutelage, the Bears had five players named First Team All-Region and a pair of NJCAA All-Tournament Team selections.  Baker went on to play at Drexel, headlining several players who made the jump along with Courtney Turner (FIU), Jasmyn Jefferies (Claflin) and Ciara Bailey (Norfolk State) to name a few.
 
Additional stops for Maye are the Philadelphia Belles, an EYBL and National Team allowing for the opportunity to coach more than 30 Division I athletes, three McDonald's All-Americans and two future WNBA lottery picks. Maye also worked for one year with Lehigh men's basketball as their Director of Operations in the 2017-18 season.
 
As an athlete, Maye was a four-year player at Norfolk State where he competed in 68 games and scored 174 points for the Spartans. In his senior season, he participated in 33 games with 10 starts while averaging 4.5 points per game. Maye was a member of the 2012 team that was inducted into the NSU Hall of Fame in 2024 after it won the MEAC Title and went on to defeat #2 seeded Missouri in the NCAA Tournament.