Coach Raphael Chillious first term at South Kent School was from 2003-2008, during which time he was the architect of the School’s basketball program and the driving force behind its rise to national prominence. Learn more about the History of South Kent Basketball.
He led the early Prep Basketball teams to national rankings every year of his tenure, reaching as high as #4 in the ‘03-’04 school year. Chillious has a proven track record of recruiting and developing high-performance talent, with 17 of those players making it to the NBA, including South Kent School alumni Jack McClinton ’04, Dorell Wright ’04, Andre Blatche ’05, Isaiah Thomas ’08, and Dion Waiters ’10. He also coached Josh Boone and recruited/developed #1 draft pick Markelle Fultz, Dejounte Murray, Terrence Ross, Marquise Chriss, Quincy Pondexter, CJ Wilcox, Matisse Thybulle, Ryan Archidiacano, Darrun Hillard, and Justin Holliday as a collegiate assistant coach.
After South Kent School, Chillious held several high-profile collegiate coaching positions, including the University of Washington from 2009-2012 and 2013-2017. He helped the Huskies earn the 2010 and 2011 Pac-10 Tournament Championship and 2011-2012 Pac-12 Regular Season Championship. In addition, he helped them advance in the NCAA tournament in 2010 and to a Sweet Sixteen berth in 2011.
Between years at Washington, he spent one season at Villanova under Head Coach Jay Wright, where he helped recruit several players that would eventually win the 2016 NCAA Title.
From 2017-2018, he returned east to work with the University of Connecticut as the Associate Head Coach, where the 2018 recruiting class was ranked #22 in the country. Most recently, Chillious was the Associate Head Coach at East Carolina University from 2018 until he returned to the Cardinals at South Kent School.
Coach Chillious’ coaching pedigree is exemplified by the fact that each collegiate Head Coach he has worked for has either won the NCAA National Championship as either an Assistant or as a Head Coach.
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