Raphael McNeill begins his first season as an assistant coach on Chynna Bozeman's staff in 2025-26.
McNeill comes to Loretto after two years at Riverdale Baptist High School. Last season, he served as the varsity women's basketball head coach, leading the team to a 24-11 record and ranking in the Top 10 in the state of Maryland. Additionally, two players from that team received NCAA Division I scholarship offers, while two others earned NCAA Division II offers. For the 2023-24 season, McNeill served as the associate head coach of the Riverdale Baptist varsity boys team and as the head coach of the junior varsity team.Â
Before his time at Riverdale Baptist, McNeill spent eight seasons as the associate head coach for the men's basketball team at Livingstone College. The team won the CIAA Tournament title in 2014-15, and McNeill recruited and coached the program's all-time leading scorer and CIAA Player of the Year, Roger Ray.
He began his coaching career at the NCAA level as an assistant coach at Virginia Union, a CIAA school, during the 2013-14 season. McNeill was an assistant coach at NJCAA Division I Chesapeake College for two years. He coached three All-Region XX players with the Skipjacks.
McNeill got his start in coaching at the high school level in Prince George's County at Suitland, C.H. Flowers, and Largo.Â
McNeill began his collegiate playing career at Old Dominion University before transferring to Fayetteville State University, where he earned a degree in computer science and mathematics in 2001.Â
