Karl Baptiste, Jr. joins the University at Albany men’s basketball program in the spring of 2021 as the team’s Director of Recruiting and Video. Baptiste, Jr. last served as a Graduate Assistant Manager with the Penn State men’s program from 2019-21. While at Penn State, Baptiste, Jr. covered player development, recruiting, scouting, and administrative scheduling/planning for the team, contributing to a historically high-achieving Penn State team in 2019-20 that finished with a 21-10 record.
Before joining Penn State, Baptiste, Jr. served as an Assistant Coach for the Brimmer and May School varsity boys’ basketball program from 2016 to 2018. There, he spearheaded development at the school through various channels, working through recruiting and networking to build a consistently better team. He worked with players on skill development, maintaining accurate statistics to improve weight training and fitness program effectiveness, and developed numerous future college athletes.
Baptiste, Jr. is also the CEO and founder of KJ’s Summer Runs, which he created in May of 2019. KJ’s Summer Runs coordinates summer basketball pick-up games for top-level collegiate and professional athletes, located in the greater Boston area. Current NBA players who have played in the Summer Runs include Marcus Smart, Bruno Fernando, Duncan Robinson, Bruce Brown, and Carson Edwards.
Baptiste, Jr. graduated from Brandeis University, where he played college basketball, in 2018 with a B.A. in Sociology. He is anticipating earned a MPS in Psychology of Leadership from Penn State this spring.
