Coaching Staff

JON PERRY

Head Coach

Jon Perry was named the 20th Navy men’s basketball head coach on March 19, 2025.  His inaugural 2025-26 season as head coach will be his 13th on the Navy staff.

At Navy (2013-14 to Present)

Perry, who most recently was the associate head coach for the Mids, played a key role in the development of Navy’s offensive game plan and opponent scouting and film breakdown.  He served as the recruiting coordinator, the Director of Navy Basketball Summer Camps and Clinics and the head coach of the Navy developmental team.  Perry was also responsible for perimeter player development and instruction, organized the scheduling of non-conference opponents, oversaw the student managers and was the liaison between the staff and the Navy compliance office.

Navy posted an 82-64 overall record and a 53-32 mark against Patriot League foes over the last five years and put together a winning record against league foes in six of the last nine years (80-67 record in league games during this span).  The Mids reached the championship game of the 2022 and ‘25 Patriot League Tournaments after they won their division in 2021, placed second in the league in 2022, tied for second in 2023 and tied for third in 2025.  

Navy finished in a tie for fourth place during the 2015-16 season when the Mids were 9-9 against league foes (19-14 overall) and then had a fourth-place finish in 2016-17 when they posted a 10-8 record in league play and were 16-16 against all opponents. 

The team’s 2017-18 campaign saw the Mids reach the 20-win plateau (20-12) for the first time in 18 seasons and post a league record of 11-7.  It marked Navy’s first appearance in the semifinal round of the league tournament since the Mids advanced to the championship game of the 2001 event.

The Mids, who had one senior and 11 freshmen on the roster in 2019-20, posted an 8-10 record to tie for sixth place, which was part of an overall record of 14-16.

In 2020-21, the Mids compiled a 15-3 overall record and a 12-1 record during the Patriot League’s regular season.  In addition to defeating Georgetown for the first time since the 1976-77 season, the Mids also earned the outright No. 1 seed in the league tournament for the first time since 1997.

The 2021-22 campaign saw Navy open the season with a victory at No. 25 Virginia.  That win began a year which ended with a 21-11 overall record, a second-place finish in the Patriot League regular season with a 12-6 mark and the program’s first trip to the league tournament title game in 21 years. 

The 2022-23 campaign ended with the Mids posting an overall record of 18-13 and tying for second place in the league with an 11-7 record.

Navy tied for third place in the league in 2024-25 with a 10-8 record as part of a 15-19 overall record.  The Mids proceeded to go on the road for victories in the league tournament at No. 5 Boston U. and No. 1 Bucknell to reach the championship game of the postseason for the second time in four seasons.  

Personal

The native of Milton, W.Va., and his wife, Stacey, and their daughters, Charlotte and Josephine, reside in Annapolis.

Scott Wagers

Assistant Coach

The 2025-26 season will be the first at Navy for assistant coach Scott Wagers.  He also serves as the team’s defensive coordinator.

High School Coaching Career (1991-92 TO 1999-00)

Wagers played basketball at and earned a bachelor’s degree in Health and Physical Education from Tennessee Wesleyan College (Athens, Tenn.).  He began his coaching career upon graduation as the head coach for the boys and girls teams at Washburn High School (Washburn, Tenn.).  Wagers spent four seasons at the school where he compiled a 64-38 record and was recognized as the 1994 Tennessee Athletic Coaches Association Coach of the Year.

He then became the head coach for the boys team at Robinson High School (Tampa, Fla.) the next season.  His teams posted a 126-24 record, averaged 100 points per game, won four division titles and earned one regional championship during his five seasons.  Wagers led the 1998 team to the state semifinals, after which he was named the Tampa Bay Basketball Coaches’ Association Coach of the Year and his team was selected as the St. Petersburg Times / Tampa Tribune Team of the Year.

At East Tennessee State (2000-01 TO 2012-13)

Wagers spent 13 seasons at East Tennessee State in Johnson City, Tenn., starting with the 2000-01 season under then-head coach Ed DeChellis when Jon Perry was a junior on the team.   The Bucs recorded at least a share of five first-place finishes, appeared in five conference title games and made four trips to the NCAA Tournament with Wagers on the staff.  

His first NCAA Tournament team was the 2002-03 squad when Perry served as a graduate assistant for the Bucs.  After DeChellis left for Penn State in 2003, Wagers was retained by new head coach Murry Bartow.  He served as the team’s defensive coordinator through which he was responsible for developing the full-court defensive style, trapping principles and man-to-man philosophy of the team.  This led to the Bucs regularly ranking among the top teams in the country in steals, defensive field goal percentage and points allowed.  ETSU went on to appear in the NCAA Tournament in 2004, 2009 and 2010, play in the 2007 NIT and reach the semifinals of the 2011 CIT.  

At Lamar (2013-14) / At Jacksonville (2014-15 to 2016-17)

Wagers spent the 2013-14 season at Lamar and then was on the Jacksonville staff for the next three seasons (2015-17).  

At South Florida (2017-18 to 2022-23)

Wagers soon traveled across the state and joined the staff at South Florida for the 2017-18 campaign.  His six-season tenure in Tampa was highlighted by the 2019 team that posted an overall record of 24-14 and won the CBI with the most victories in school history.

Personal

Wagers was one of 64 assistant coaches invited to attend the 2011 Nike Villa 7, was named a 2016 NCAA DI - CIT Top 30 Assistant Coach and received the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Tampa Bay Basketball Coaches Association.

He and his wife, Stacey, are the parents of son Luke and daughter Lola Grace.

Zack Curran

Assistant Coach

Zack Curran starts his first season as a member of the Navy coaching staff in the fall of 2025.  The Sterling, Va., native serves as the team’s recruiting coordinator.

At Marymount (2015-16)

A 2015 graduate of Virginia Tech with a degree in economics, Curran began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Marymount during the 2015-16 season.  He left the NCAA Division III school after one season to serve as the recruiting director for The Hoop Group.  He helped run camps and tournaments for AAU teams and players for three years.

At George Mason (2019-20 TO 2020-21)

Curran returned to the coaching ranks in 2029 when he became the director of operations at George Mason.  The Patriots posted winning seasons in each of his two years in Fairfax.  George Mason compiled an overall record of 30-24 during that span, which included a 13-9 record in 2020-21 when it reached the quarterfinals of the Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament.

At Air Force (2021-22 to 2024-25)

Curran began serving as an assistant coach at Air Force during the summer of 2021.  He worked with all facets of the program during his four years in Colorado Springs, including recruiting, scheduling, monitoring academic performance and game planning.

JORDAN LYONS

Assistant Coach

Jordan Lyons enters his third season at Navy during the fall of 2025.  He also serves as the team’s offensive coordinator.

At Navy (2023-24 to Present)

His first season on The Yard saw the Mids have one of the youngest teams in the country (15th, in terms of average age of the roster).  Navy would compile an overall record of 13-18 in 2023-24 and posted an 8-10 record in league play.

Navy compiled a 10-8 record during the 2024-25 Patriot League regular season to end the regular season in a tie for third place.  The Mids went on the road to win a pair of games and reach the championship game of the Patriot League Tournament.  Navy closed the year with a 15-19 overall record.

At Furman (2022-23)

Lyons began his coaching career as a video and analytics coordinator at his alma mater during the 2022-23 season.  The Paladins ended the season with an overall record of 28-8, shared the SoCon regular season title with a 15-3 record and won the conference tournament for the first time since 1980.  

Furman made its first trip to the NCAA Tournament in over four decades a memorable one as it defeated Virginia in the first round before losing to eventual tournament-finalist San Diego State in the second round.

Individually, Mike Bothwell and Jalen Slawson were finalists for the 2023 Lou Henson Mid-Major Player of the Year Award, Slawson was named the SoCon Player of the Year and was later a second round selection by Sacramento in the 2023 NBA Draft and Bothwell signed a free agent contract with Cleveland that same year.

Collegiate Playing Career (2016-17 to 2019-20)

Lyons graduated from Furman in 2020 with a bachelor degree in communication studies.  On the basketball court, he totaled 1,529 points in his career to rank 16th on the school’s scoring list and is the program’s leading three-point shooter with 288 triples over his four years.  Lyons tied the NCAA record for the most treys made in a single game when he drained 15 against North Greenville on Nov. 15, 2018.  He scored 54 points against the Crusaders that day, an effort that ranks eighth in school history and is tied for 10th place in Southern Conference history.  

Lyons received all-conference accolades in both 2019 (third team) and 2020 (first team) after first being named to the Southern Conference All-Freshman Team in 2017.  He also earned placement on the conference’s all-tournament team in 2018 and ‘19.  Additionally, he was named to the Lou Henson Mid-Major All-America Team in 2020.

Lyons was part of Furman teams that shared the 2017 Southern Conference regular season title and never placed lower than third in the conference standings in his four seasons.  The Paladins amassed an overall record of 96-37 and a SoCon regular season record of 55-17 during his career.  He started on the 2018-19 team that opened the season with a 12-0 record, defeated 2018 NCAA national champion Villanova and 2019 Final Four team Loyola (Ill.), appeared in the Associated Press top-25 national rankings for three weeks and played host to Wichita State in the first round of the NIT.

Professional Playing Career (2020-21 to 2021-22)

After graduating from Furman, he began a professional career that included stops in the Latvian Estonian Basketball League (BK Ogre, 2020), The Basketball League (Shreveport Mavericks, 2021) and the Kosovo Superliga and Liga Unike (KB Prezreni-16, 2022).

Personal

The Peachtree City, Ga., native graduated from McIntosh High School with a school and Fayette County (Ga.)-record 2,351 points.  Lyons earned all-region and all-county accolades in each of his four seasons to go along with a pair of all-state laurels.  He was inducted into the McIntosh High School Hall of Fame in 2022.

BRETT BARRON

Assistant Coach

Brett Barron begins his third season as an assistant coach and the program’s director of scouting in the fall of 2025.

At Navy (2023-24 to Present)

Navy entered his inaugural 2023-24 season as one of the youngest teams in the country as the Mids ranked fifth for the average age of the roster.  Navy would compile an 8-10 record in league play and a 13-18 record overall.  Afterward, Barron was selected to attend the prestigious TopConnect Basketball Symposium held at UNLV.

The Mids reached the championship game of the 2025 Patriot League Tournament in his second campaign.  Navy tied for third place in the regular season with a 10-8 record and ended the year with an overall record of 15-19.

At Saint Francis U. (2018-19 to 2019-20)

He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Saint Francis U. for two seasons.  The Red Flash advanced to the NEC Tournament championship game in both 2019 and 2020, compiled an overall record of 40-25, shared the NEC regular season title in 2019 and played in that year’s NIT.  Barron earned a master’s degree in health sciences while in Loretto.

At Randolph-Macon (2020-21 to 2022-23)

Barron then spent three years as an assistant coach at Randolph-Macon.  Included among his areas of responsibility were serving as the director of recruiting and scouting, leading on- and off-court player development, coordinating social media and being the team’s strength and conditioning coach.  The Yellow Jackets compiled an overall record of 74-3 and during his three seasons in Ashland, Va.  His tenure was highlighted by the 2021-22 team that posted an overall record of 33-1 and won the NCAA Division III National Championship.

Education

The native of Hazleton, Pa., played basketball at Hazleton Area High School before attending DeSales University.  He was a four-year member of the basketball team at DeSales (the team posted a 75-35 record in his career) where he was named to the All-MAC (Middle Atlantic Conference) Sportsmanship Team as a senior.  Barron graduated in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in sport and exercise science.