Damany Hendrix

Background

About Damany Hendrix

A native of Vallejo California, Damany Hendrix has over two decades of combined playing and coaching experience. Currently on staff at San Jose State University, Hendrix coached for two seasons with Vanderbilt men’s basketball. He began his stint with the Commodores in 2019-20 as the team’s director of player development and quality control. In the role, Hendrix was responsible for overseeing student-athlete development programs, community service initiatives and special events among other duties. In May 2020, he was promoted to assistant coach and helped the program to a second round appearance in the SEC Tournament. Prior to his time in Nashville, Hendrix was an assistant coach in the NBA G League for the Northern Arizona Suns and the Raptors 905, where he worked under head coach Jerry Stackhouse before following him to Vanderbilt. Hendrix, a two-time all-conference selection at Lamar, began his collegiate coaching career as a volunteer at Cal Maritime Academy before serving as a graduate manager at Cal State Northridge. He initially got his toes wet in the coaching profession in 2004 at his alma mater, Vallejo High School, where he spent four seasons on staff before taking on a role with the Oakland Soldiers, an AAU team, a role he held for six seasons. Following his time with CSUN, Hendrix returned to the high school ranks as the head coach at Justin-Siena High for two seasons before packing his bags for China, where he served as a player development assistant in Beijing. Two years later, he returned to the United States to join Stackhouse’s staff at Raptors 905. Hendrix graduated from Lamar in 2003.