E-mail Coach Graham (ng67@cornell.edu)
Nat Graham is in his second year as an assistant coach at Cornell under head coach Steve Donahue. Graham, who played three seasons at Penn when Donahue was the team's assistant coach, came to the Cornell staff after spending several seasons as an assistant coach at both the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto.
In his first season, Graham helped Cornell to 13 wins and an upper division Ivy League finish with an 8-6 mark in conference play. He assisted in the development of Ivy League Rookie of the Year Adam Gore, as well as All-Ivy selection Lenny Collins.
At Western Ontario, Graham helped the team to the Canadian national tournament and also was in charge of conducting clinics and summer leagues along with his regular coaching duties. At Toronto, he was part of a staff that helped the program make a substantial turnaround (9-24 to 17-17) that included a playoff victory. Graham served as the team's recruiting coordinator and also ran multiple high school tournaments as well as the school's successful summer camp.
Prior to his stint at Toronto, Graham spent two years coaching the boy's and girl's varsity and junior varsity basketball teams at MM Robinson HS in Burlington, Ont., and spent two years coaching the Burlington Panthers basketball club squad. The Panthers reached the quarterfinals of the provincial championships and featured three Division I players.
Graham lettered twice in three seasons at Penn and was part of two undefeated Ivy League championship teams before transferring to Western Ontario. At Western, Graham was a two-time first-team all-league and All-Canada selection. He went on to play for two seasons professionally in Ireland and Denmark before returning to coaching.
Graham and his wife, Kelly, reside in Ithaca with their 1-year-old son, Silas.
