D'Marr Suggs
Graduate Assistant CoachAlma Mater: Idaho State, '03
E-mail: dsuggs@adams.edu
Office Phone: 587-8240
After serving as the top assistant coach at Northeastern Junior College in Sterling, Colo. for the past four years, D’Marr Suggs is now in his first year as the Grizzlies’ graduate assistant coach.
He will also serve as the head coach for the Grizzlies' junior varsity program.
At Adams State, he re-unites with Louis Wilson, who was an assistant coaching during his First Team All-Big Sky Conference player at Idaho State University.
Suggs, 32, who will assist will all aspects of game preparation for the Grizzlies, helped the Plainsmen to a impressive combined 102-31 record in his four years at Northeastern, which went 34-2 while advancing to the national tournament. He then helped head coach Eddie Trenkle guide the team to another solid 30-4 season in 2007-08, a season heartbreakingly ended in double-overtime of the Region IX Tournament Championship game. Former Grizzly Eric Miller was on both of those teams.
The Plainsmen then also had a 22-10 record in 2008-09 and a winning 16-15 mark last year.
Prior to Northeastern, Suggs coached at Johnson High School in St. Paul, Minn., the school in which he shined during his prep days. In 2003-04, the first of his three years as an assistant with the Govenors, he helped the team to the state tournament for the first time in 82 years. The 2005-06 squad then went 26-5, the school’s best ever record at the time.
While coaching at Johnson, Suggs served as the junior varsity coach for the first two years helping the Govenors to conference title. In his third year, he strictly served as the varsity assistant for head coach Vern Simmons and helped guide Minnesota Player of the Year Freddy Coleman, who has since gone on to a solid career at North Dakota State.
An all-state and conference MVP player during his career at Johnson, Suggs then took his talents to Merritt (Calif.) Junior College, where he helped the T-Birds play for a conference title in his first year (1998-99) before winning the 1999-2000 crown, the school’s first title in 25 years. Tabbed as the Bay Valley Conference MVP and a first team all-state selection that season, Suggs was then recruited to Idaho State, where he earned three career Big Sky Player of the Week honors while earning first team all-conference and team MVP honors as a senior in 2001-02.
He averaged 15.7 points per game, fourth most in the Big Sky that season, and tallied 113 3-pointers in his 2-year career, 10th most in Bengals’ history.
The proud father of two sons— Felipe Ybarra Suggs, 12, and Kenyan Cole Suggs, 6— Suggs comes from an athletic family. His first cousin Terrell Suggs is linebacker for the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens. His sister Mykal is on a full-ride basketball scholarship at Western Nebraska Community College.
A 2003 graduate of Idaho State with a bachelor’s degree in physical education, Suggs is now pursuing a master’s degree in sports administration through Adams State’s human performance and physical education program.
