Charlton “C.Y.” Young was named an associate coach of the Miami men’s basketball team in April 2025, bringing almost 30 years of Division I coaching experience to the program.
Over Young’s 29 seasons as a coach, he has been a part of nine NCAA Tournaments and two regular-season conference titles, while coaching 15 NBA Draft picks, some of whom include Patrick Williams, Scottie Barnes and Thaddeus Young, among others.
Most recently, Young served as the associate head coach at the University of Missouri, where he helped the Tigers to the NCAA Tournament in two of his three years on staff. The Tigers recorded a pair of 20-win seasons during Young’s tenure, including their most wins in 11 seasons with 25 overall victories in 2022-23, after being picked 11th in the SEC Preseason poll.
In Young’s first two years on staff, the Tigers had back-to-back players named SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year in Kobe Brown (2023) and Sean East II (2024).
Young is no stranger to the ACC having spent nine seasons on Leonard Hamilton’s staff at Florida State from 2013-2022. Over that time frame, Young helped the Seminoles to an ACC regular-season championship (2020), three Sweet Sixteen appearances and the program’s first Elite Eight in 25 years.
The 2020 team finished the season ranked in the top five of both major polls – the school’s best finish in program history – before the NCAA Tournament was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A proven elite recruiter, Young assisted Florida State in landing eight consecutive top-10 classes from 2013-21, highlighted by the likes of NBA first-round draftees Barnes, Williams, Malik Beasley and Devin Vassell.
Prior to his arrival at Florida State, Young spent four seasons as head coach at his alma mater, Georgia Southern. He took over a program that won only eight games with a 5-15 Southern Conference record in the season before his arrival and quickly established it into a title contender with a second-place finish in his third campaign.
Young’s first foray into the ACC came in from 2005-09 when he served as an assistant coach at Georgia Tech. During his second season on staff, the Yellow Jackets produced two NBA first-round draft picks in Thaddeus Young (12th overall) and Javaris Crittenton (19th overall). Young was also instrumental in signing the nation’s No. 1 recruit, Derrick Favors, while at Georgia Tech.
Young, who also enjoyed assistant coach stints at Auburn (1996-97 and 2000-04), Jacksonville (1997-98), Northeastern (1999-00) and UT Chattanooga (2004-05) was inducted into the A STEP UP Assistant Coaches Hall of Fame in 2023. He was also named the No. 1 High-Major Division I Minority Assistant Coach by the Minority Coaches Association in 2021 and was a finalist for the Ben Jobe Award in 2012, which is awarded annually to the top minority head coach in Division I.
One of the most prolific players in Georgia Southern history, Young ranks 14th all-time in program history in career points (1,517) and still holds the school’s 3-point field goal percentage record, shooting 40.9 percent in his four-year career as an Eagle. The three-time all-conference selection was inducted in the GSU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2008 and had his number retired in 2024.
Following a playing career that included a stint professionally in France in 1994, Young returned to Georgia Southern to earn his degree in broadcasting.
Young and his wife, Carolyn, have four children – daughters Ariel and Audia and sons Isaiah and Nehemiah. Carolyn is a two-time All-American and 1991 SEC Player of the Year who led Auburn to a pair of Final Four appearances. She was also a member of the 1992 United States Olympic Bronze Medal National Team and played for the Portland Fire of the WNBA. Ariel played for North Carolina and graduated in 2023, while Audia is currently a redshirt sophomore on the Auburn basketball team.
