Coach Merritt has over 35 years of coaching and youth development experience. Coach Merritt and his staff continually place student athletes in the top schools and the most competitive basketball tournaments throughout the country. Coach Merritt founded The Club Boston Basketball Academy in January 2026.
Previously, Coach Merritt was the Director of Basketball Operations at The BASE, Inc. from 2019-2025, where he helped build a youth basketball empire from 2 to 21 teams in his first year serving youths in Grades K-12.
Prior to The BASE, Inc., Coach Merritt founded the Merritting Attention Basketball Club (MABC Bengals) in 2005. Since 2005, Coach Merritt and his coaching staff have won 13 National Championships and over 50 Massachusetts AAU State Championships and New England AAU Super Regional Championships.
In addition, Merritt has coached many student-athletes that have been ranked nationally in the ESPN Top 100, played in the McDonald’s All-American Game, the Michael Jordan Classic for premier high school basketball players and many have played Division I, II, III College Basketball along with several playing professional basketball in the NBA and Europe.
Coach Merritt received a full four-year basketball scholarship to attend Merrimack College where he received a B.S. in Business Administration. While at Merrimack, he was named Merrimack College Men’s Basketball Team MVP, selected to the NCAA Division II New England All-Star Team and the Founder of the first organization for students of color, Brothers & Sisters United at Merrimack College in 1995.
During his high school basketball career at Cathedral High School (Boston), Coach Merritt won honors such as Boston Herald’s All-Scholastic & Player of the Year Awards, Boston Globe All-Scholastic & Player of the Year Awards and selected to the Boston Herald Dream Team – Top 5 players in Massachusetts. Merritt is a member of Cathedral’s 1,000 Point Club (1,549). He was one of the best three sport athletes at Cathedral by excelling in baseball, football and basketball.
Currently, Merritt serves as the Assistant Director of Athletics at Bunker Hill Community College and a member of the NJCAA Basketball Committee.
