8/17/22
Melvin Le’Kerby Marshall (Kerby) enters his seventh year as head baseball coach for Paine College. Marshall comes to the program from Edward Waters College, in Jacksonville, FL where he was head coach for six years.
In the first year as the head basketball coach, Marshall led his team to the NCCAA Regional Championship game before finishing as the runner-up.
Immediately after a successful basketball season, Marshall guided the baseball program to an outstanding season. He had five student-athletes garner NCCAA all-region accolades while finishing with a team GPA of 3.0.
As the head coach of the Lions, Marshall's team has achieved similar success off the diamond. In his first season as the Lions leader, Marshall, was the SIAC runner-up after leading Paine to the championship game. The team has received the Team Leadership Award in 2013-14 and 2014-15. His players have also earned individual accolades under his leadership. Dalton Self received President's Cup in 2013-14, John Hyer received Athletic Director award in 2013-14, and Jon-Tyler Shaw received the President's Cup for the 2014-15 season.
During his tenure at Edward Waters, from 2005-2011, Coach Marshall led his team to four consecutive 20 plus win seasons, two 35 plus win seasons and a trip to the NAIA championships in 2011. In his final season at EWC, Marshall’s team finished the season with a 37-24 overall record and recorded the first postseason trip in the history of Edward Waters College Baseball. Coach Marshall was named NAIA unaffiliated conference Coach of the Year, and received number one rankings in Black College Baseball for NAIA and NCAA Division II baseball. Also under his tutelage at Edward Waters College, Coach Marshall helped produce the school’s first player selected for the Major League Draft (Charles Thomas/Chicago Cubs-2009). In 2008, Coach Marshall’s team set the school record of 35 wins and received their first national ranking in NAIA Top 25 poll. Coach Marshall has also spent time working as an assistant area scout for the Florida Marlins.
The Jacksonville, FL native is a graduate of Englewood High School, where he was a three-sport letterman, and received a double scholarship to play basketball and baseball at Shaw University, in Raleigh, NC, where he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management in 1992. As a student athlete, Marshall earned baseball MVP honors in his junior and senior seasons, and was also named to the All-CIAA conference honorable mention team. In 2016 Marshall was inducted into the Shaw University Athletics Hall of Fame for his accomplishments in Baseball and Basketball.
Coach Marshall’s coaching career began at Ribault Middle School, where he coached baseball and basketball for a year, and then moved to the high school level, where he coached baseball from 1998-2005. While at Ribault, he was instrumental in teaching the game of baseball to inner city youth, who were not exposed to the sport. He coached his middle school basketball team to a 12-0 record championship, and his baseball team finished the season with a 13-2 overall record. Once coach Marshall transitioned to high school, several of his players received baseball scholarships to Alcorn State University, Shaw University, and Lake City Community College. One of those players, Corey Wimberly, went on to be drafted by the Colorado Rockies in the 6th round of the MLB draft. After finishing a rewarding career in the majors, Wimberly followed Marshall's footsteps to coaching and currently serves as the manager of the Roswell Sox, the rookie league affiliate of the Boston Red Sox organization.
