Interview with Preston Beverly, coach of the Evangel University Women's Basketball team.
Preston Beverly was named the Head Women's Basketball Coach on July 19, 2021.
Beverly brings a wealth of spiritual, academic, and basketball leadership to Evangel where he becomes the seventh head coach in program history.
Most recently, he spent the last two seasons as the head coach of 16U and 14U Nike Girls EYBL Team in New York. He also served as an assistant coach for the 17U team where he coached four high major players ranked in the ESPN Top 50. In 2019, Beverly served as an assistant coach at NCAA Division I Hofstra University with the women's basketball team.
Beverly played collegiately at NCAA Division I Virginia Military Institute where he was one of the top defensive players in the Big South Conference. He played professionally in the inaugural National Professional Basketball League in 2007 for the Hudson Valley Hawks leading them to the NPBL championship where he was the team's leading rebounder.
Beverly graduated from VMI in 2006 with a degree in computer science and a minor in psychology and math, reaching the ranks of S-6 Lieutenant.
He and his wife Danielle have three children.