SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Heading into a new season with experienced and loaded coaching staff, Head Coach Marty Richter announced Cavel Witter as a new addition to the USC Upstate Men's Basketball coaching staff ahead of the 2025-26 season. 

Witter joins Upstate Men's Basketball after spending a season at the University of West Virginia in the 2024-25 season. Witter aided the Mountaineers to 19 wins and helped coach an All-Big 12 first team player along with an All-Big 12 Defensive Team player. Richter and Witter already a familiar coaching together as both were on the same staff at Drake during the 2023-24 season. In 2023-24, he helped the Bulldogs to a program-record-tying 28 wins, earning a berth to the NCAA Tournament following an Arch Madness—Missouri Valley Conference—Championship. 
  
He joined Drake following a two-season stint at Georgia Southern, serving as a graduate manager with the program where he helped the Eagles to 30 wins during his time in Statesboro, Ga. Before joining Georgia Southern, he spent three seasons as an assistant coach at Lincoln University of Missouri, helping the program to 41 victories, including 18 in his first season, leading the team to a fourth-straight postseason appearance and a trip to the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association Tournament. 
  
A three-year letterwinner at Creighton, Witter helped the Blue Jays to 67 wins and three consecutive postseason appearances, including a pair of NITs, as he appeared in 101 career games. He earned All-Bench Team honors from the Missouri Valley Conference in 2008 and closed the 2008 regular season with a 42-point effort against Bradley on March 1, 2008—a then-CHI Health Center Omaha single-game scoring record. 
  
After graduating from Creighton in 2010, he played professionally in Portugal and Germany before competing in the G League for the Iowa Energy. He was named All-Bundesliga in 2013, a First Team All-Import Selection in 2014, and Eurobasket.com All-German Team in 2015-16. 

"We are thrilled to have Cavel join the Upstate family," Richter expressed. "His ability to relate and communicate with the players is going to be a great asset to the coaching staff. He is going to help us in the recruiting process with his connections in the south."

All hires by the University of South Carolina Upstate athletic department are subject to an approved background check.

 

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