Mount Fan Blog: Wilkins to round out Christian's staff

Friday, April 20, 2012

Wilkins to round out Christian's staff

Mt. St. Mary's and Head basketball coach Jamion Christian have hired Ben Wilkins as an assistant basketball coach. Wilkins comes to the Mount after serving as an assistant for Tony Shaver at William and Mary. Wilkins worked with Christian during that time at William and Mary.

Wilkins served as an assistant at Barton University and on the staff at NC State before going to William and Mary. The William and Mary athletic website credits Wilkins with having a major role in implementing the offensive and defensive systems for the Tribe.

He was Shaver's right hand man the last few years and will serve in the same capacity with Christian at Mt. St. Mary's.

We welcome Ben Wilkins to the staff and wish him all the success.

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The Mount FanBlog is hosted by Ryan Raffensperger, a sports fan of all types and a Mount Basketball fan forever.

Raffensperger has loved the Mount as long as he can remember, which basically means 1981 - and remembers the true #GloryDays of Memorial Gym. He remembers the players from those days to the athletes who play at Knott Arena today. And if it's a #MountMayhem day, it's going to be a good day.

He holds a Syracuse University degree in broadcast journalism. He has broadcast high school, college & minor league levels of all sports in his past and regularly covered high school football for his hometown paper. So the blog does make a little sense.

Raffensperger worked professionally as a CPA for many years, but the chronic inflammatory immune disease Sarcoidosis made it impossible to continue that in a manner he found acceptable. Since then, he has spent more time around the Mount St. Mary's basketball program and values Coach Dan Englestad, his staff, and the players' impact on him. The blog was much more active, but the advent of Twitter (follow @themountfanblog) has made writing a little less important. But he hopes that the balance swings back in favor of more traditional content soon.