Coaching Staff

Head Coach Greg Pappas

Head Coach Greg Pappas begins his fourth year as the Head Coach of the Men's Basketball Team. With his strongest recruiting class in four years mixed with crafty veterans, Pappas hopes to find a winning combination.

The 2006-2007 season saw the Royals finish the year with a 4-26 overall record and 2-18 in the GSAC. During a two game winning streak, Coach Pappas showed off his versatility as a coach. Against then #11 GSAC rival Point Loma Nazarene, the Royals use a showed a slow tempo and lots of ball movement to defeat the Sea Lions 60-58. A week later the Royals dusted off their track shoes against the University of Redlands and out ran the Bulldogs en route to a 127-123 win. Marko Torovic dropped in 57 points in the win. A 69-64 overtime win over the Vanguard Lions provided the Royals with their other GSAC win of the season.

After the first two years of the Pappas era, the Royals managed just 4 wins. Pappas kept his team in many of those games as they lost 16 games by 10 points or less including a free throw away from winning one those games.

Pappas also served as the Men's Interim Head Coach during the 2003-2004 season and as an assistant coach under former head coach Tim Sweeney Sr. during the 2002-2003 season.

Prior to coming to Hope International, Pappas served as an Assistant Coach at Azusa Pacific University for three years. He was part of two Golden State Athletic Championship teams in those three years, including the 2000-2001 team that won a school record 35 games and lost in the NAIA semifinal game. Before going to APU, Pappas spent twenty years coaching in high school. Pappas was the first basketball coach at Cabrillo High School in Long Beach when the program started in 1998. Pappas served as head coach at Rowland High School for six years, leading them to the playoffs in four of those years. He was named San Gabriel Valley Tribune Coach of the Year in 1991.

Pappas, who also serves as Hope's Athletic Director, earned his Bachelors in Business from Long Beach State University in 1981. In 1987, he earned his Masters in Physical Education from Azusa Pacific University. Pappas resides in Long Beach with his wife, Lisa, and two sons, Jordan and Brandon.

If interested in playing basketball for Hope International University, please email coach Greg Pappas.

Assistant Coach Chet Rivera (5th Yr)

Assistant Coach Will Allen (3rd Yr)

Assistant Coach Roy Green (2nd Yr)