Derrick Greene begins his seventh season as an assistant coach at LSUS.  Greene is a native of Wilmington, North Carolina.  With a parent in the military Greene moved to the Philippines, where he played high school basketball for Wagner High School, which played in the Far East Championships.  During his senior year he moved to Bossier City, Louisiana, and graduated from Parkway High School.

Greene was a charter member of the first LSUS men’s basketball team, which began in 1990.  He was a four year letterman for the Pilots. Greene and head coach Chad McDowell were teammates three of his years, which began a lifetime friendship between the two. He graduated from LSUS with a B.A. in Sociology in 1995, and became the graduate assistant for the Pilots basketball team in 1996.  In 1997 he became an assistant coach at LSUS, but after one year the program was shut down.  Greene then became a local AAU basketball coach.  He also worked as an assistant boy’s basketball coach at Booker T. Washington High School in Shreveport, Louisiana, from 2001 to 2003. 

Greene received his Master’s of Liberal Arts from LSUS in 2002 and currently resides in Bossier City.