Aaron Proctor was named assistant coach on Coach Crarey’s inaugural staff after spending the past two seasons at Texas State University as the program’s Director of Basketball Operations.
Prior to Texas State, he served in the same role at Lamar University from 2021-2023, and he also spent the 2020-21 campaign in the same role at Southeast Missouri State.
Overall, Proctor brings 20 years of coaching experience to the Bobcats, including four years as a head coach at the high school level and two stints as an AAU head coach.
During the 2019-2020 season. Proctor served as an assistant at Missouri State-West Plains after spending the 2018-19 campaign at Arkansas-Fort Smith. He joined the Lions after a one-year stint as the head coach of North Forest High School in Houston. His time at North Forest was one of three high school head coaching jobs which also included stops at Heights High School and Alvin High School.
For two years, Proctor served on staff at Kansas State as a graduate assistant coach. During his time with the Wildcats, they recorded 38 wins – including a 20-win season in 2016-17 – and advanced to the 2017 NCAA Tournament where KSU defeated Wake Forest in its first-round game.
A native of Houston, Proctor attended Cal State-San Bernardino where he played one season for head coach Jeff Olivier. During that season (2004-05), Proctor helped lead the Coyotes to a 21-6 record and captured the California Collegiate Athletic Association title and earned a trip to the NCAA Tournament.
He graduated from CSUSB with a bachelor’s degree in 2006. Following graduation, Proctor went on to teach at the high school level before returning to college to receive his master’s degree from Kansas State in 2017.
Proctor and his wife, Ashford, have a daughter, Harper.
