{{Short description|American-Israeli basketball head coach}} {{Infobox basketball biography | name = Evan Perry Conti | image = | caption = | position = Shooting guard / point guard | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 3 | weight_lbs = 208 | league = | team = | number = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1993|4|6}} | birth_place = Bayside, Queens, New York, U.S. | high_school = Holy Cross (Flushing, New York) | college = Quinnipiac (2011–2015)<ref name="quinnipiacbobcats.com">{{Cite web|url=https://gobobcats.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/evan-conti/795|title=Evan Conti – Men's Basketball|website=Quinnipiac University Athletics}}</ref> | draft_year = 2015 | career_start = 2015 | career_end = 2018 | years1 = 2015–2016 | team1 = Hapoel Be'er Sheva | years2 = 2016–2017 | team2 = Hapoel Migdal Haemek | years3 = 2018 | team3 = Hapoel Afula | cyears1 = 2018–2019 | cteam1 = NYIT (assistant) | cyears2 = 2019–2020 | cteam2 = NYIT | cyears3 = 2021–2023 | cteam3 = Saint Michael's (assistant) <ref>https://smcathletics.com/staff-directory/evan-conti/40</ref> | cyears4 = 2023–present | cteam4 = Saint Michael's (associate head coach) }}
'''Evan Perry Conti''' (born April 6, 1993) is the American <ref name="auto2">{{Cite web|url=https://q30tv.com/sports/evan-conti-signs-first-professional-deal-with-new-israeli-team-hapoel-beer-sheeva/|title=Evan Conti signs first professional deal with new Israeli team Hapoel Be'er Sheva|first=Morey|last=Hershgordon|date=August 6, 2015}}</ref> head coach of the New York Institute of Technology Division II NCAA men's basketball team. He played three years of professional basketball in Israel, for Hapoel Be'er Sheva, Hapoel Migdal Haemek, and Hapoel Afula. He also won a gold medal in basketball with Team USA at the 2013 Maccabiah Games.
==High school== Conti is from Bayside, Queens, New York, and is Jewish.<ref name="auto2"/><ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://thegreatrabbino.com/2019/07/11/interview-back-from-israel-meet-nyits-new-head-coach-evan-conti/|title=Interview: Back From Israel Meet NYIT's New Head Coach – Evan Conti|date=July 11, 2019}}</ref>
Conti ranks fifth all-time at Holy Cross High School<ref name="quinnipiacbobcats.com"/> in Flushing, New York, with 1,120 career points; he also grabbed nearly 600 rebounds in his high school career for Coach Paul Gilvary's Knights. He averaged nearly 18 points, 10 rebounds, and five assists per game as a senior, earning Catholic High School Athletic Association (CHSAA) First Team recognition.<ref name="auto1"/> The Knights had a 17–12 record that year.
He was selected to the ''Jewish Sports Review'' 2010–11 Boys High School All-America Basketball Team.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.levelupli.com/directors/evan-conti-director-of-player-development/|title=Evan Conti: Director of Player Development|date=February 25, 2019}}</ref> NYHoops.com ranked Conti as the 13th-best player in New York City in March 2011.
==AAU== He also played AAU for the Rising Stars. The Rising Stars came in 8th in the country at the Division 1 Nationals in 2010.
==Maccabiah Games== Conti played with Team USA in the 2013 Maccabiah Games, winning a gold medal.<ref name="auto1"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theqbsn.com/2013/10/evan-conti-takes-gold-in-israel-represents-team-usa-in-maccabiah-games/|title=Evan Conti takes gold in Israel, represents Team USA in Maccabiah Games|date=31 October 2013 }}</ref>
==College== In college, Conti played guard for Quinnipiac University from 2011 to 2015 on scholarship.<ref name="auto3">{{Cite web|url=https://nychoops.rivals.com/news/evan-conti-named-nyit-head-coach|title=NYCHoops – New Yorker becomes one of the youngest college head coaches|website=nychoops.rivals.com|date=20 May 2019 }}</ref><ref name="quinnipiacbobcats.com"/><ref name="auto1"/> Conti averaged 9.0 points, 4.8 rebounds, and 2.6 assists per game as a senior with Quinnipiac. He scored 26 points against Niagara.<ref name="nyit">{{cite web |title=Evan Conti named NYIT men's basketball head coach |url=https://nyitbears.com/news/2019/5/2/evan-conti-named-nyit-mens-basketball-head-coach.aspx |website=NYIT Bears |accessdate=April 20, 2020 |date=May 2, 2019 |archive-date=October 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191017162710/https://nyitbears.com/news/2019/5/2/evan-conti-named-nyit-mens-basketball-head-coach.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==International career== He played three years of professional basketball in Israel, for Hapoel Be'er Sheva, Hapoel Migdal Haemek, and Hapoel Afula.<ref name="auto1"/><ref name="auto"/>
==Coaching career== Conti joined NYIT as an assistant coach in 2018. He became the interim head coach on February 23, 2019, coaching two games and winning his first victory over LIU Post. In May 2019, Conti was named the head coach at 26 years of age.<ref name="nyit" /><ref name="auto3"/> Conti joined the Saint Michael's College Purple Knights as an assistant coach in July 2021, after NYIT discontinued all athletic programs in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. On September 8, 2023, Conti was elevated to associate head coach at Saint Michael's. <ref>https://smcathletics.com/staff-directory/evan-conti/40</ref>
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==External links== *[https://twitter.com/epconti21?lang=en Twitter page] *[https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/59220/evan-conti Evan Conti], ESPN *[http://www.quinnipiacbobcats.com/news/2015/8/10/Evan_Conti_Signs_Professionally_in_Israel.aspx "Former QU Men’s Basketball Standout Evan Conti Inks Professional Contract in Israel"]
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