{"id":49512,"date":"2025-07-08T19:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/49512\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T19:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:47:10","slug":"charlie-ward-hires-fbs-assistants-to-florida-am-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/49512\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Ward hires FBS assistants to Florida A&#038;M staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being hired in April, <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/ncaa-basketball\/charlie-wards-son-to-play-basketball-at-florida-am\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlie Ward has been hard at work building out his roster<\/a> and coaching staff for his debut season with the Florida A&amp;M Rattlers. He<a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/hbcu\/charlie-ward-florida-am-nabs-florida-state-assistant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> already added former Florida State assistant Jarrod Lazarus<\/a> to his staff last month. Now, he&#8217;s adding even more experienced FBS assistants to his staff in hopes of reviving the winning culture of Rattler basketball.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Tallahassee Democrat, Ward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/sports\/college\/famu\/2025\/07\/07\/famu-rattlers-basketball-charlie-ward-hires-rob-lewis-sebastian-aguilar\/84499178007\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has brought on<\/a> Rob Lewis and Sebastian Aguilar to his team. Aguilar will serve as FAMU&#8217;s new director of basketball operations. From 2023 to 2025, he was a graduate assistant at FSU, where he managed travel logistics, advanced statistics, and coordinated the annual Leonard Hamilton Basketball Camp. Prior to his time at FSU, Aguilar was a student manager at St. John&#8217;s from 2021 to 2023, working with NBA players Julian Champagnie and David Jones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to welcome Sebastian Aguilar as our new director of basketball operations,\u201d Ward said in a statement. \u201cSebastian brings exceptional organizational skills, a strong basketball IQ, and a dedication to excellence that will be vital to our program\u2019s daily operations and long-term success. We look forward to the energy and insight he will bring to our team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Lewis will take on the role of assistant coach for FAMU. Previously, he served as East Carolina\u2019s director of player development and was a graduate assistant for former Florida State basketball coach Leonard Hamilton from 2022 to 2024. Lewis also played a key role in the development of Washington Wizards rookie and former Seminole Jamir Watkins.<\/p>\n<p>Ward also spoke highly of his hire of Lewis, saying, \u201cWe are excited to welcome Rob Lewis to our coaching staff. Rob brings a wealth of experience, a deep understanding of the game, and a passion for developing players both on and off the court. His leadership and energy will be a tremendous asset to our program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-tertiary italic text-secondary [&amp;_&gt;a]:text-link [&amp;_&gt;a]:underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/author\/randallbarnes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Randall Barnes<\/a> is ClutchPoints&#8217; Head of HBCU (Historically Black College or University) content and the founder of HBCU Pulse, a multimedia outlet with the mission to tell the authentic stories of HBCU Life via traditional, digital and social media outlets. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After being hired in April, Charlie Ward has been hard at work building out his roster and coaching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,16548,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-49512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-hbcu","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaabasketball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114819343953671912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}