Newton will be entering his first season as a Head Coach in 2024-25 season. Newton is the 7th Men's Basketball Head coach in the program's modern era.
The Beavers posted an 18-9 record a year ago, including a 9-5 record in North Atlantic Conference play. Newton will inherit a talented roster and aim to guide them to the program's first NAC Championship since 2010.
Newton began his coaching and player development career in the summer of 2017, assisting in the training of NBA and WNBA athletes such as Paul George, Diana Taurasi, and Anthony Davis, among others, as an on-court player development and strength and conditioning coach for Integrity Hoops.
After graduating from Saint Joseph’s College of Maine in the spring of 2018, Newton was hired as an Assistant Coach at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama. He helped lead the team to their first conference tournament in five years.
Following his time at Huntingdon, Newton was hired as an Assistant Coach and Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Hampden-Sydney College in Hampden-Sydney, Virginia. Newton played a key role in recruiting and helping to develop numerous Hampden-Sydney athletes who competed in the Division III National Championship this past season.
After a COVID-shortened 2020-2021 season, Newton returned to Maine, taking an Assistant Coach position at the University of Southern Maine under Head Coach Rob Sanicola, who Newton played for at Saint Joe’s. Newton served as the Recruiting Coordinator for the Huskies and helped lead them to their first Little East Conference playoff victory in nine seasons.
Following one season at USM, Newton was hired as an Assistant Coach at Bates College, where he has been for the past two seasons. He also served as the Recruiting Coordinator and the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Bobcats. Newton coached the NESCAC’s leading scorer during the 2022-2023 season and helped land the 2023-2024 NESCAC Rookie of the Year as part of their most recent recruiting class.
As a player at Saint Joseph’s, Newton was a four-year starter and 1,000-point scorer for the Monks, starting in all 102 games that he appeared in. For his career, Newton averaged 9.9 points and 5.2 rebounds per game while shooting 45.6 percent from the floor and helping lead the Monks to a playoff bid in each of his four seasons. Newton was named the Maine Men’s Basketball Coaches and Writers Association (MMBCWA) Rookie of the Year during the 2014-2015 season.
