Former Blue Hose standout forward Al’Lonzo Coleman is in his third season as an assistant coach. Coleman joined the Blue Hose coaching staff after spending 11 years playing professional basketball.
“Al’Lonzo is an all-time great student-athlete at PC and arguably the best player in school history,” said Presbyterian head coach Quinton Ferrell. “He brings tremendous experiences with him to the program with his time as a student at PC, and the wealth of basketball knowledge he’s accumulated from his playing days as a standout player at both the collegiate and professional levels. Al’Lonzo is a great asset to the program, our campus, and the community. In Al’Lonzo our players have an example of someone who had the PC experience and was able to make all of his dreams come true by getting a top-notch degree, becoming a professional basketball player, and building real relationships that will last forever, all from deciding to attend Presbyterian College.”
In his two seasons on the Blue Hose coaching staff (2023-25), Presbyterian earned consecutive postseason tournament berths with bids to the CBI. Three players garnered All-Big South honors, while two players were named to the Big South All-Freshman team. Presbyterian began the 2023-24 season with a road victory at SEC foe Vanderbilt. In the 2024-25 season, the Blue Hose recorded seven Big South Conference wins, which was tied for the fourth most Big South wins in school history. PC earned the fifth seed to the 2025 Big South Tournament, which was the highest Big South Tournament seed in the program's history. In 2025, Presbyterian was recognized for its hard work in the classroom by earning the NABC Team Academic Excellence Award for the first time in school history.
Before joining Presbyterian’s coaching staff, he played pro basketball in Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Iceland, Finland, Israel, France, the Dominican Republic, Hungary, and Turkey. He averaged double-figure points in each of his 11 seasons of professional basketball. He averaged 20.7 points and 12.1 rebounds playing for Stjarnan in Iceland’s First Division in the 2015-16 season while earning All-League honors. On February 7, 2016, he scored a career-high 41 points against Thor Thorl playing for Stjarnan. Playing for Hapoel Ramat Gan in Israel, he averaged 19.0 points and 14.0 rebounds. Playing for Maccabi Rehovot in Israel, he grabbed a career-high 24 rebounds against Maccabi Haifa on January 9, 2018. During his career, he was a two-time Import Player of the Year in Israel in the 2017-18 and 2020-21 seasons. In 2016-17, he was a member of the All-Defensive team in Finland. He played on three teams that reached the Finals of their respective leagues, including being part of a league championship team in Ecuador.
During his career at Presbyterian, Coleman became the first player in the program’s history to garner First Team All-Big South honors when he collected the accolade in 2012. He was a Second Team All-Big South selection in 2009. As a freshman, while helping the Blue Hose usher in the Division I era, he was named NCAA Division I Independent Newcomer of the Year in 2008 after leading the Blue Hose in scoring (11.2 ppg) and rebounding (5.0 rpg). He also garnered a spot on the All-Independent Second Team and the Division I Independent All-Newcomer team. During his career at Presbyterian, the Blue Hose beat Auburn and Wake Forest in back-to-back games during his redshirt junior season, which marked the first power five wins in the school’s D1 era and first back-to-back power five wins. During his redshirt senior season, Presbyterian defeated 20th-ranked Cincinnati.
In his stellar career at Presbyterian from 2007-12, Coleman scored 1,499 points, which is the third most points scored by a Blue Hose player in the Division I era, while grabbing a program Division I record 786 rebounds. Coleman was the first player in school history to score 1,000 points in Division I basketball. He holds Presbyterian Division I era career records for free throws made (417), free throws attempted (632), defensive rebounds (532), and offensive rebounds (254). He also collected six of the eight highest single-game rebounds totals in the program’s Division I era, including grabbing a program-best 18 boards at Winthrop on February 14, 2012.
A Charlotte, North Carolina native, Coleman graduated from Presbyterian with a degree in Business Management with a double minor in Physical Education and Coaching in 2012. Coleman has a daughter, Zoë (9).
