John Ashaolu
	Position: Director of Basketball Operations Experience: First Year at ECU Alma Mater: Xavier (La.), 2004

John Ashaolu is in his first season as the Director of Basketball Operations at East Carolina University.

Ashaolu's responsibilities include the coordination of all team travel, overseeing all aspects of the ECU Basketball Camps and all other day-to-day basketball operations.

Ashaolu joined the Pirate basketball staff after serving two seasons as the head coach and assistant director of operations for Basketball Stars of America AAU in Pittsburgh. He also worked in a similiar capacity for Grassroots Canada AAU in Toronto for five seasons.

He began his coaching career during the 2004-05 season as an assistant coach at Trinity Valley Community College in Athens, Texas. He coached there for one season before becoming an assistant coach at Toronto Academy Preparatory School.

Following the 2005-06 season, Ashaolu returned to collegiate coaching as a graduate assistant as Duquesne University. He assisted in all aspects of coaching including recruiting, travel planning and practice, while also managing inventory and the purchasing of team equipment and apparel.

Ashaolu has worked numerous basketball camps, including the NBA Adidas Nations Camp and the Adidas ABCD All-American Camp.

He played collegiately at the University of New Orleans as a freshman and sophomore before transferring to Xavier University of Louisiana for his final two seasons. He served as team captain as a junior and senior at Xavier, where he helped his team captured a share of the 2003-04 Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Championship.

Ashaolu earned his bachelor's of arts degree from Xavier in 2004 and received his master's of science degree from Duquesne in 2008.

Ashaolu is single and resides in Greenville.

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