Ed Cooley

Ed Cooley is an esteemed American college basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the Georgetown Hoyas men’s basketball program. Cooley has had a successful coaching career, having held the same position at Providence College from 2011 to 2023, and Fairfield University from 2006 to 2011. In 2022, he was awarded the Naismith College Coach of the Year and the Sporting News Coach of the Year, after leading the Georgetown Hoyas to the Big East tournament championship game. Additionally, he received the inaugural 2010 Ben Jobe National Coach of the Year Award.

Cooley played basketball at Providence’s Central High School and earned Rhode Island Player of the Year honors twice. He then attended Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts, where he was a three-year team captain and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in history. After college, Cooley began his coaching career at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 1994, spending the 1994–1995 season as an assistant men’s basketball coach before returning to Stonehill as an assistant coach in 1995–1996. He later joined Al Skinner’s staff as an assistant coach for URI, before following Skinner to Boston College in 1997. In nine seasons as an assistant at BC, Cooley helped the Eagles post a 175–108 overall record, which included five 20-win seasons. Cooley earned his first head coaching position in 2006 for Fairfield University of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. His coaching career really took off once he returned to his hometown and became head coach at Providence College, where he has become a campus hero for his contributions to the sport over the years.

A disciplined and charismatic coach with a pure passion for the game, Cooley will continue to do what he loves most. That is, inspiring and developing the next generation of talent.