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Takayo Siddle
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	UNC Wilmington
Conference	CAA
Record	84–41 (.672)
Annual salary	$600,000
Biographical details
Born	May 25, 1986 (age 38); Eden, North Carolina, U.S.
Playing career
2005–2009	Gardner–Webb
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2009–2010	Hargrave Military Academy (asst.)
2010–2014	Gardner–Webb (asst.)
2014–2017	UNC Wilmington (asst.)
2017–2020	NC State (asst.)
2020–present	UNC Wilmington
Head coaching record
Overall	84–41 (.672)
Tournaments	4–0 (CBI)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
	CBI (2022); CAA regular season (2022)
Awards
	CAA Coach of the Year (2022)

Takayo Lemont Siddle (born May 25, 1986) is an American basketball coach who is the current head coach of the UNC Wilmington Seahawks men's basketball team.^[1]

Playing career

Siddle was a basketball standout at John Motley Morehead High School in Eden, North Carolina, averaging 27.0 points, 6.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game as a senior. He attended Hargrave Military Academy in 2004–05 and helped the team reach the prep school championship game.^[2] Siddle played college basketball at Gardner–Webb under Rick Scruggs.^[3] As a sophomore, Siddle averaged 8.6 points per game.^[2] In his junior season, Siddle scored eight points in a 84–68 Runnin' Bulldogs win at Rupp Arena vs. 20th-ranked Kentucky to advance to the final four of the 2007 2K Sports College Hoops Classic in Madison Square Garden.^[4]^[5]

Coaching career

After his playing career, Siddle became an assistant coach at Hargrave Military Academy for one season under Kevin Keatts.^[6] He then returned to his alma mater to work for as an assistant coach at Gardner–Webb for four seasons under both Chris Holtmann and Tim Craft.^[7]

Siddle then reunited with Keatts as an assistant coach at UNC Wilmington, where the Seahawks won back-to-back CAA regular season and conference tournament titles in 2016 and 2017.^[1] He was named interim coach of the Seahawks in March 2017.^[8]

He followed Keatts as an assistant at NC State from 2017 to 2020 before returning to UNC Wilmington as head coach on March 13, 2020, as the 13th head coach in Seahawk history.^[2] Siddle signed a five-year deal with a base salary of $300,000 plus supplemental compensation.^[9]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
UNC Wilmington Seahawks (Coastal Athletic Association) (2020–present)
2020–21	UNC Wilmington	7–10	1–6	10th
2021–22	UNC Wilmington	27–9	15–3	T–1st	CBI Champion
2022–23	UNC Wilmington	24–10	12–6	T–3rd
2023–24	UNC Wilmington	21–10	12–6	T–3rd
2024–25	UNC Wilmington	5–2
UNC Wilmington:		84–41 (.672)	41–21 (.661)
Total:		84–41 (.672)
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion