Coaching Staff

Lamar Chapman | Assistant Men's Basketball Coach

Lamar Chapman was named an assistant coach with the men's basketball team in May of 2023.

Chapman has spent nearly 25 years coaching high school and college basketball and was on Mark Montgomery's staff at Northern Illinois.

"Lamar is an excellent coach who I have known for a long time," said Montgomery. "He has a track record for helping improve student-athletes on and off the court everywhere he has been, and his local and national recruiting ties will be invaluable to this program."

He spent last season as head coach of Caledonia High School in Caledonia, Michigan.

Prior to that, he was an assistant coach at Gordan State, a junior college in Georgia, and Central Connecticut State, a Division I school from the North East Conference.

Chapman worked with Montgomery for four years at NIU as an Associate head coach and was named the interim head coach in 2020-21. During his time, he coached the program's all-time leading scorer in Eugene German and helped the Huskies win a share of the MAC West Division title in 2019-20. That season, NIU won its most conference games in 14 campaigns and German became the eighth player in program history to earn All-America recognition. The Huskies also recorded their first win over a ranked opponent since 1973 with a win over #14 Buffalo and advanced to the MAC semifinals for the first time since 2003.

Before that, he spent nine seasons at Stony Brook University, helping the Seawolves to four regular-season conference titles, one America East Tournament championship and seven postseason appearances, including the school's first NCAA Tournament bid in 2016. In his nine years, the Seawolves had six 22-plus win seasons and he recruited the 2010 conference Player of the Year and 2012 Defensive Player of the Year Muhammad El-Amin, in addition to three all-league performers.

Chapman's collegiate coaching career began with three seasons at Central Michigan before he went to Toledo for two seasons. He helped develop a First-Team All-MAC performer at CMU and helped the Rockets win their first MAC regular-season title in 26 years during his first season with the program.

His coaching career began with a highly successful two-year run as head coach at the high school level with Muskegon Heights, MI. He coached the Tigers to a 42-9 record and an appearance in the Class B state final and Class C state semifinals during his tenure. Chapman guided Muskegon Heights to a 21-5 record in 2001-02 and was named the Class A & B Coach of the Year by the Muskegon Chronicle. In 2002-03, the Tigers were 21-4 and repeated as district and regional champions, earning a state runner-up finish.

A native of Muskegon Heights, Michigan, Chapman was a four-year starting guard at Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee. He was the school's Athlete of the Year in 1991 and 1992 and was inducted into the Jackson-Madison County Athletic Hall of Fame in 1992.

He received his Bachelor's degree in Health and Physical Education from Lane in 1993.

Mike Peck | Assistant Men's Basketball Coach

University of Detroit Mercy men’s basketball head coach Mark Montgomery added more experience to his coaching staff with the addition of Mike Peck as an assistant coach in May of 2024.

Peck - a native of Gaylord, Michigan - has coached at Division I, professional and high school in his 20 years in the profession. He helped build one of the top prep programs in the country in Findlay Prep, which produced numerous DI student-athletes and professional players, before coaching in the NBA G-League.

“Mike is a great coach, who brings tremendous experience from his time in college, in the pros and in high school,” said Montgomery. “He has invaluable recruiting connections nationwide and that along with his passion for coaching and helping student-athletes make him a great fit for Detroit Mercy.”

He just ended his eighth season as an associate head coach at the University of Texas San Antonio, where he was the defensive coordinator and worked with the post players, while also assisting in game preparation and all aspects of the Roadrunner program.

During his time with UTSA, he coached Jhivvan Jackson – 57th all-time in NCAA in scoring with 2,551 points and Keaton Wallace – second in school history with 2,80 points. The pair ranked as the No. 2 duo of any recruiting class in college basketball history.

The program posted 110 wins, including 59 wins in Conference USA play.

In 2019-20, Jackson finished second in the nation in scoring (26.9 points per game), setting C-USA and UTSA single-season records, in addition to shattering school marks for career and season scoring. Senior wing Byron Frohnen, Peck's first recruit at UTSA, capped his do-it-all career as the program record in career starts, games played and rebounds. In 2018-19, he helped direct UTSA to a second-place finish in Conference USA with a guard-hefty lineup that featured the nation’s top scoring backcourt in Jackson and Wallace. Peck worked directly with the duo as they each averaged over 20 points per game, helping to implement an exciting, fast-paced style of play that saw UTSA rank 19th in the NCAA in pace of play. In 2017-18, Peck’s second season in San Antonio, the Roadrunners produced their most successful season of the decade. The team finished 20-15 overall, including an 11-7 C-USA record, a 12-4 home mark and only the program’s second postseason victory, defeating Lamar in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT).

In addition to the 20 wins, which were the most for UTSA since the 2010-11 season, the program ranked sixth in the NCAA with an average of 28.9 defensive rebounds per game, 13th in overall rebounding at 39.8 per game, 16th with 353 made 3-pointers and in the top 20 percent with a scoring average of 78.3 points per game.

In Peck’s first season with UTSA, the 2016-17 Roadrunners more than doubled its win total from the year prior from five to 14. Included in the 14 wins were a school record-tying eight Conference USA victories, the program’s first C-USA tournament win and a triumph over I-35 rival Texas State. Moreover, UTSA defeated three of the C-USA’s top four team with its wins over Louisiana Tech, Old Dominion and UTEP. Peck aided the Roadrunners to one of the best defensive turnarounds in the nation in 2016-17. The team improved its defensive field goal percentage 8.5 percentage points and lowered its points allowed per game by nearly 15.0 points per game. Moreover, the team’s 69.4 points allowed ranked in the top third of Division I and UTSA limited opponents to fewer than 60 points nine times after doing so just once the year prior.

Peck came to UTSA after spending the 2015-16 season as an assistant coach at Santa Clara, where he mentored guard K.J. Feagin, who started all but one contest, was second on the team in scoring (11.4 ppg), led the squad in assists (3.8 apg) and earned West Coast Conference All-Freshman Team honors.

Prior to that he was the head coach of the Las Vegas Prospects AAU Team in 2015 that competed in the prestigious Nike Elite Youth Basketball League.

At the professional level, Peck spent two seasons as the head coach of the NBA D-League's Idaho Stampede (2012-14), which was the affiliate of the Portland Trail Blazers. He was instrumental in the development of Pierre Jackson, who averaged 29.1 points per game and was named to the Futures All-Star roster for the 2014 NBA D-League All-Star Game. In all, seven of his former players with the Stampede were on NBA rosters, including current New Orleans Pelicans and Portland starter C.J. McCollum. Additionally, he assisted the Trail Blazers' NBA Summer League team in 2013 and he coached in a pair of Trail Blazers pre-season training camps.

Peck enjoyed a six-year stint (2006-12) at Findlay Prep in Henderson, Nevada, where he spent the final five years of his tenure as head coach and built the program into a national powerhouse. His teams combined for a 157-8 (.950) record, including a perfect 33-0 season in 2009, three ESPN National High School Championships (2009, '10, '12) and a national runner-up finish (2008).

Peck's teams were ranked in the top 10 of the USA Today and ESPN polls for all five of his seasons and the Pilots produced seven McDonald's All-Americans, seven Jordan Brand All-Americans and eight Parade All-Americans. Peck mentored seven current NBA/NBA D-League players, four of which were first-round picks, including Anthony Bennett, who was the No. 1 overall pick of the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2013 NBA Draft, and Tristan Thompson, who was taken No. 4 overall by the Cavaliers in 2011.

The winningest coach in program history, Peck became the first inductee of the Findlay Prep Hall of Fame in 2015. In addition to the success of his teams on the court, every graduate of Findlay Prep was an NCAA Division I qualifier for their freshmen year of college.

His success at Findlay Prep came following a three-year tenure at UNLV (2003-06), where he served as the video coordinator and administrative assistant under head coaches Charlie Spoonhour and Lon Kruger. He also was an assistant coach at Saginaw Valley State (1998-2003) and Northwood University (1997-98). He got his start in coaching as the junior varsity head coach at St. Mary Cathedral School in his hometown of Gaylord, Mich., where he guided the Snowbirds to a 20-0 record in his lone season (1994-95) before he joined the Saginaw Valley State staff as a graduate assistant (1996-97).

As a player, Peck was a four-year letterwinner and two-time Academic All-American at Northwood.

He graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Business Administration in 1993 and went on to earn a master’s in Education from Saginaw Valley State in 1998.

Peck and his wife, Terri, have a daughter, Madison, and a son, Gavin.

LaMonta Stone | Assistant Men's Basketball Coach

Detroit native LaMonta Stone joined the Titans as an assistant coach in May of 2024 as part of Mark Montgomery's first coaching staff.

"I have known LaMonta for a long time and his passion and knowledge of the game will be a great asset to our student-athletes," said Montgomery. "He is a veteran who has coached at many levels, and his recruiting presence in Detroit as well as nationally will be huge for us."

A veteran with 30 years of coaching experience at the collegiate and high school level, Stone spent last season as the Director of Basketball Operations at Eastern Michigan, helping the Eagles to their most total and MAC victories since 2019-20.

Prior to EMU, Stone was the head coach at his alma mater, River Rouge High School, from 2014-16 and 2018-21, as well as from 1994-00. He led the Panthers to back-to-back Class B state championships in 1998 and 1999, with both of those teams earning Top-25 national rankings in the USA Today poll. All told, 10 of Stone's River Rouge teams won district titles and seven were regional champions. Both the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press named Stone the High School Coach of the Year in 1999 after he guided his squad to a state runner-up finish. He also was singled out for the Coach of the Year honor by the Michigan Coaches Association in 1997.

At the college level, Stone has been an assistant at four different universities in the University of Michigan-Dearborn (1991-94), Eastern Michigan (2000-02), Ohio State (2002-04) and Bowling Green (2004-14).

In his first stint with the Eagles, Stone worked under Jim Boone as EMU advanced to the MAC Tournament both years. Stone's second collegiate position came at Ohio State where he worked under Jim O'Brien. During his two years in Columbus, the Buckeyes competed in the 2003 National Invitational Tournament (NIT).

At Bowling Green, Stone was hired by then-head coach Dan Dakich ahead of the 2004-05 season and worked for Dakich for three seasons. Stone stayed on staff when Louis Orr took over the program in time for the 2007-08 season and his departure at the end of the 2013-14 campaign. During his 10 seasons with the Falcons, the team competed in a pair of postseason tournaments, including the 2009 NIT and the 2011 CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT).

As a student-athlete, Stone competed in track and field at Toledo for two seasons before transferring to Michigan-Dearborn and competing in basketball. In high school, he was a three-sport athlete at River Rouge in basketball, track and field, and football. He completed his bachelor's degree in Psychology at Wayne State in 1999.

Stone and his wife, Tomica, have three sons, LaMonta II, Lance, and Landen.

Chris MacMartin | Assistant Men's Basketball Coach/Director of Basketball Operations

Chris MacMartin was announced in Mid-May of 2024 as the Titans' Assistant Coach and Director of Basketball Operations.

MacMartin and head coach Mark Montgomery go back to NIU, where he was a student manager for the Huskies.

"Chris is one of the hardest working young coaches that I have been around," said Montgomery. "He was a sophomore manager for me at NIU and has risen through the ranks to become an assistant coach, and he will be a great addition to our staff and our student-athletes."

He spent last season as an assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, helping the team post 17 wins. Before that, he was an assistant coach at the University of Dubuque for two years. Over the two seasons, he helped the Spartans go 40-14 overall and 26-6 in American Rivers Conference play. In MacMartin's first season at UD, the Spartans won the ARC regular season and conference tournament championship while making a NCAA Division III tournament appearance.

MacMartin arrived at UD after seven years on staff at Northern Illinois under coach Montgomery. He served as an assistant coach at NIU in 2020-21, following one season as the Director of Player Development and Operations with the Huskies. MacMartin moved into a full-time role following two years as NIU's video coordinator/graduate assistant from 2017 to 2019. He joined the NIU basketball program in 2014 as a student manager, working for the Huskies for three years as an undergraduate.

During MacMartin's time at NIU, the Huskies posted three seasons that rank among the top seven for single-season wins at NIU, earning 21 victories in 2015-16 (tied for second-best), 18 wins in 2019-20 (sixth-best) and 17 wins in 2018-19 (tied for seventh-best). NIU also captured a share of the MAC West Division title in the 2019-2020 season and earned a first-round tournament bye for the first time since 2006. As a graduate assistant, MacMartin helped the Huskies to a 17-win campaign in 2018-19, while reaching the Mid-American Conference Tournament semifinals for the first time since 2003.

MacMartin graduated with a degree in Community Leadership and Civil Engagement from NIU in 2017 and his earned his master's in Adult and Higher Education in 2019.

Ian Jones | Assistant Men's Basketball Coach/Director Of Player Development

Head coach Mark Montgomery announced Ian Jones as an Assistant Coach and Director Of Player Development on May 21, 2024.

Jones is a former basketball player at East Carolina and was a graduate assistant at Michigan State for the last three years, when Montgomery was on staff.

"Ian is a young and upcoming coach who loves the game of basketball and is a tireless worker," said Montgomery. "He was a student manager in college who kept working and earned a spot on the team, so that shows you the determination he has and the competitiveness and work ethic that he will bring to the program."

With the Spartans, he assisted the coaching staff in creating player personnel and defensive scouting reports, broke down film, and helped with individual and team workouts. MSU totaled 64 wins and made the NCAA Tournament all three years, reaching the Sweet 16 in 2023.

At ECU, he started as a team manager for two seasons before earning a spot on the roster and was a member of the American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team.

He earned a degree in Sports Studies with a minor in Parks and Recreation from East Carolina in 2021 and his master's in Sports Coaching and Leadership from Michigan State in 2023.

Collyn Richardson | Assistant Men's Basketball Coach/Video Coordinator

Detroit Mercy men’s basketball head coach Mark Montgomery finished his first Titan coaching staff with the appointment of Collyn Richardson as an Assistant Coach/Video Coordinator in May of 2024.

Richardson was with Toledo for six years, starting as a student manager and moving to head manager as a junior and then to the Rockets’ video coordinator in 2022-23.

“Collyn is an emerging bright coach that I am excited will be a part of our staff,” said Montgomery. “He has great experience with his time at Toledo as a manager and video coordinator and I look forward to seeing him grow as a young coach.”

His responsibilities included coordinating all video needs, managing social media accounts, directing the student manager program, and working with the student organization for men’s basketball.

During his time at Toledo, he also worked with Superfriendz, an Adidas sponsored non-profit, as a head coach and director, helping six kids receive a Division I scholarship, He worked with C2K – Committed 2 Kids as a coach, was the coach for the Ottawa Hills seventh-grade girls basketball squad, which won the TAAC regular-season and tournament title, and as a skills trainer for Grassroots Basketball Academy.

A Lansing, Michigan, native, Richardson lettered in basketball and track at Okemos High School and earned his degree in Bachelor’s Administration from Toledo in 2024.