Mike Lenzly enters his first season as an Assistant Coach with the Colonels.
Born in Oxford, England to American military parents, Lenzly is a dual citizen of Great Britain and the United States. Raised in Jonesboro, GA, he played high school basketball at Lovejoy, where he led the team to the class 4A State Final Four as a senior in 1999.
Lenzly attended Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC from 1999-2003, finishing with 1,333 career points in 116 games. He led the team in points, rebounds and assists as a senior. He also has the only triple-double in school history with 21 points, 12 assists, and 10 rebounds in a 105-69 win against Chattanooga during the 2000-2001 season. He is now sixth in the record books in school history with 169 3-point field goals made and seventh in 3-point field goals attempted with 467, giving him a 36.2 career 3-point field goal percentage. A three-time All SoCon selection from 2000-2003, Lenzly was named co-most valuable player in 2003. He was inducted into the Wofford College Hall of Fame in 2008.
After graduation, Lenzly began his professional basketball career in Europe that spanned 10 years and seven different countries including Germany (TBB Trier), Latvia (BK Ventspils), Spain (Tenerife Baloncesto), Cyprus (Apoel), Belgium (Dexia Mons), Italy (Givova Scafati) and Czech Republic (Cez Nymburk). He also played for Great Britain's Senior Men's national team in the summers of 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2012. During his professional career, Lenzly was named to the FIBA EuroCup All-Star game in 2008, participated in the European Championship in the summers of 2009 and 2011, earned a Nike Uk Contract and played in the 2012 London Olympic Games. He won four domestic championships in 10 years. His first championship came in Latvia (2005) and the other three in the Czech Republic (2010, 2011 and 2012). Lenzly finished his pro career in Germany for Wurzburg in May of 2013
