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One of the top young assistant coaches in the nation
with a reputation as one of the country's best
recruiters, Fred Quartlebaum is yet another member
of Norm Roberts staff with ties to the City of New
York. The energetic assistant joined the St. John's
basketball family in May 2004.
Quartlebaum is graduate of Fordham University in the
Bronx and a native of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. His
impressive resume includes several coaching stops in
major conferences, having worked in the BIG EAST
(St. John's, Notre Dame), the Big 12 (Iowa State)
and the Atlantic Coast Conference (North Carolina).
Quartlebaum is an accomplished recruiter, and is
involved in all areas of the basketball program. His
is instrumental opponent scouting, practice and game
preparation, and the development of all Red Storm
men's basketball athletes, particularly the post
players.
Over the course of Quartlebaum's coaching career, he
has helped recruit five McDonald's All-Americans:
Sean May, Rashad McCants, Raymond Felton and Jawad
Williams of UNC and Chris Thomas of Notre Dame.
Quartlebaum had a pair of recruiting classes that
were ranked second nationally (2001 & 2002) while at
North Carolina.
Quartlebaum's first recruiting class at Iowa State
was ranked eighth nationally in Clark Francis'
HoopScoop Magazine. Mike Sullivan of Rivals Hoops
ranked him among the top 10 best assistant
recruiters in the nation. Basketball News named him
a "hot assistant ready to make the move to head
coach" in 2003.
Quartlebaum came to St. John's from Iowa State,
where he was an assistant to Wayne Morgan for one
season. He helped ISU to a 20-13 record and an
appearance in the NIT semifinals at Madison Square
Garden. The Cyclones, which beat three teams that
advanced to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen that season
(Xavier, Kansas, Texas), tallied a 17-1 record in
Hilton Coliseum, the second-best single-season home
win total in school history. Quartlebaum helped
tutor ISU star Curtis Stinson, a native New Yorker
who went on to earn Big 12 Freshman of the Year
honors and first team Freshman All-America accolades
from Basketball Times. He also coached current NBA
player Jackson Vroman.
Prior to his stint at Iowa State, Quartlebaum was an
assistant under Matt Doherty at North Carolina from
2000-03. In his first year, the Tar Heels won 26
games and earned a No. 1 national ranking late in
the season. UNC posted a 13-3 league record that
year and won a share of an ACC regular-season
championship. North Carolina made one NCAA and one
NIT appearance during Quartlebaum's time in Chapel
Hill, where he coached first team All-American Joe
Forte, current NBA center Brendan Haywood, as well
as Julius Peppers and Ronald Curry, who went on to
pursue careers in the NFL.
Quartlebaum spent one season at Notre Dame under
Doherty (1999-00) prior to their move to Chapel
Hill. The Fighting Irish went 22-15 that season and
made a run to the NIT championship game. Quartlebaum
coached a pair of current NBA players at Notre Dame:
All-American Troy Murphy and Matt Carroll.
Quartlebaum was an assistant coach at Fairfield in
1998-99, Holy Cross in 1997-98 and Towson in
1996-97. Prior to his Towson stint, he served four
seasons (1992-96) as an assistant coach at the
United States Naval Academy. There he helped the
Midshipmen earn the Patriot League championship and
a trip to the NCAA Tournament in 1994.
Before beginning his collegiate coaching career,
Quartlebaum was the head coach at Rye High School in
Rye, N.Y., in 1991-92.
A 1989 Fordham graduate with a degree in
communications, Quartlebaum was a four-year
performer for the Rams, helping the team to a NIT
appearance in 1988. He was the team's co-captain his
senior year.
A native of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., Quartlebaum is a
graduate of Archbishop Stepinac High School in White
Plains, where he earned all-county and all-division
honors in basketball. He played AAU basketball for
the Riverside Church squad.
Born on Aug. 30, 1967, Quartlebaum is married to the
former Christy Stephens. The couple has two sons,
Trey (5) and Mayson (3). |
