Blackhawk Men's Basketball Camps
Coaching Staff

Brian Turner
Assistant Coach

Brian Turner is coming into his seventh year as an assistant coach for Southeastern. During his time here, he has worked together with the staff to recruit numerous players that have gone on from here to be successful at the next level. He has also helped to develop several players into All-Region and All-American status by the time they graduated.

Born and raised in Burlington, Turner graduated in 1997 from Burlington High School. He played basketball at Iowa Western Community College from 1997-1999 and then went on to play NCAA Division I basketball at Western Illinois University from 1999-2001. While completing his degree in Business Management, he was hired by then Coach Jim Kerwin to be a Student Assistant Coach at WIU for the 2001-2002 season. Following this, he attended Graduate School at WIU where he received a Master’s of Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing in 2004.

Turner is also related to three great Blackhawk players. His father Mack and mother Lora met while Mack was on his way to making the list as one of the Top Career Individual Scoring Leaders. Mack is now the color commentator for the Blackhawk Basketball radio broadcasts. Two uncles are in the top ten on the Career Individual Scoring Leaders list, Larry Woods, and First Team All-American and Southeastern Hall of Fame inductee Sam Williams. All three played for Region XI Championship teams and now Brian has joined them as he has now helped coach the Blackhawks to two Region XI Championships.

Lorenzo Watkins
Assistant Coach

Lorenzo Watkins enters his first season at SCC, after coaching for the Bulldogs at South Carolina State University. He previously served one season as an assistant coach at Campbell University. While at Campbell, Watkins was instrumental in the development of the Fighting Campbell program. Before Campbell, Watkins spent one season as assistant coach at the University of New Orleans (UNO). During his stint at UNO, the Privateers won 14 games overall and went 9-9 in the Sun Belt Conference. Watkins had also previously spent time as an assistant at Sacramento State, where he helped lead the Hornets to their first Big Sky Tournament semifinal appearance since joining the conference in 1996.

Before moving to Division I ranks, Watkins spent four years as head coach at Indian Hills. IHCC posted a 94-36 record during Watkins four years in charge, averaging 24 wins a season. Watkins spent six years total at Indian Hills serving as assistant for two seasons.

Watkins played two years for Idaho State before earning his B.A. degree in social work in 1997. He started all 55 games in which he appeared at Idaho State and averaged 14.1 points per contest. An all-Big Sky Conference selection as a junior, Watkins led the Bengals in three-pointers made each season and ranks fifth all-time at Idaho State with 116 career treys. Watkins played two years at Indian Hills where he played for Coach Carroll from 1991-1993 and was two-time all-region selection as junior as a point guard for the Warriors.

He earned his A.A. in arts and sciences in 1993. Watkins is a native of Portsmouth, VA and married to former Sara Noe of Eldon, Iowa. They have a son, Mason and two other boys, Landon and Trey and also a daugther Olaundria. Coach Watkins's basketball responsibilities at SCC will be to coordinate recruiting, academic monitoring and big man play. He is also the Director of Fund Raising for the Athletic Department.