Ralph Patin
Women's Basketball Coach

Ralph Patin enters his second year as head coach of the SMC Women's Basketball team in the 2007-2008 season.

For Patin, whose father coached basketball and football in his native Louisiana, coaching is a natural progression. Patin’s father  was also his high school coach at Lutcher High School in Lutcher, La.

Most recently Patin coached the Varsity Girl’s Basketball Team at Ridgeview High School in Columbia. Before that, he coached at C.A. Johnson Preparatory Academy and coached and played while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. Patin credits his father as being influential in his decision to become a coach.

Patin attended college at Jackson State in Jackson, Miss. He is married to Nalinee Patin, and they have two children: a son, Jamal, 14, and a daughter, Jasmine, 9.

“I’m a disciplinary kind of guy,” says Patin, who wants to lead the Lady Pioneers to a winning season, but also wants his players to be just as successful academically. “I would like to see a consistent graduation rate,” Patin says of his players.

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