Virginia State University Athletics

Maurice Sumter is going into his third season at Virginia state. Coach Sumter takes part in player development as a front court position coach that has produced an All-Americans in back to back seasons. Those two All-Americans went on to play professionally in Europe. In the two season at VSU Maurice takes on various rolls on the staff that include recruiting, day to day and travel operations, and administrative duties. Since his arrival in the 2017 season, the Trojans hold an overall record of 55-9 and a conference record of 32-4 and home record of 24-1.

Maurice spent one season as assistant men’s basketball coach at Harcum College where the team held a 22-9 record and a Region 19 regular season conference champ and tournament runner up. This Bear’s team produced a NJCAA All-American and two other Division I signees. The 2016-2017 Harcum College Men’s Basketball team started the season as the number 21st ranked team in the country.  They took on a schedule filled with nationally ranked opponents that included the eventual national runner up.  His role on the team consisted of scouting, player development, opponent scout and academics.    

In 2015 Maurice volunteered at Old Dominion University in Virginia of Conference USA. He was able to observe multiple functions of the program that became the eventual Conference Champions.

Maurice was a volunteer at Shaw University in North Carolina in 2014, where they lost in the semifinals of the CIAA conference tournament. He took part in the player development of two all-conference players and two players that went on to play professionally in Europe. 

Sumter entered the collegiate ranks after 4 years as an assistant coach and player development on the JV and varsity teams at the alma mater of Hall of Famer Alonzo Morning, Indian River High School in Chesapeake, Virginia. He also spent two summers with the Adidas Gauntlet powerhouse Team Loaded (NC) where he assisted in coaching and recruited some of the top ranked high school players in the country.

A Norfolk, Virginia native by way of Alexandria, Virginia, Sumter was part of the very successful T.C. Williams High School program. In his tenure at T.C. Williams he was name to numerous honors such as All- District player of the year, 1^st team all-Region and All- Metropolitan team in the D.C. area. He also led his team to a 25-4 Record and a Regional Semi-finals where they fell to the eventual state runner up.

He continued his playing career at Longwood University as the first ever Division I men’s basketball player in school history.  Sumter led the Lancers into #1 ranked Illinois who became the eventual national runner ups. Going head to head with more than 15 eventual NBA players and other top ranked opponents, Sumter was the caption for a young group looking to establish a transitioning program.

In his junior and senior season he led the team in scoring, steals and second in rebounding and blocks. In both season he was named first team All-Independent and third team All-State Honors.  He was also named Male Athlete of the Year at Longwood University.  He was named top 5 greatest players of all time in the school’s history by ESPN. Sumter finished his impressive career top 5 all-time leaders in scoring (1,604), rebounding (667), assists (274) steals (209) and blocks (135).

After completing his career at Longwood University, Sumter played 3 years professionally making stops in Holland, Portugal and Macedonia. Each season his team reached the playoffs with Sumter being the leading scorer (25ppg) in Portugal and received All-Bosman and All-League honors. His playing career was ended after his third professional season due to an ACL injury.