Sedric Baker is in his 7th season on the Bowie State University men’s basketball staff. His primary responsibilities with the Bulldogs include scouting, recruiting, game preparation and working with the guards.
Coach Baker has been a fixture in high school basketball for decades in the Washington Metropolitan area and has developed and enhanced the fundamentals of over 65 Division I student-athletes. Some of his notable players include David Chaney (VCU), Louis Bullock (Mich.), Joe Childress (NE La.), Cliff Ligon (UMES), and James Wood (UMES).
The majority of that time was spent working under preparatory school coaching legend Chris Chaney. Coach Baker helped Chaney establish nationally recognized programs at the Canterbury School, Laurel Baptist Academy, The Newport School, and more recently Princeton Day Academy (post graduate team) during the 2010-2011 season.
Baker has also coached at Arch Bishop Carroll High School of the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference, as well as, Oxon Hill High School during its reign as a powerhouse of Prince George's County 4A.
Coach Baker’s first coaching job was the Canterbury School where he served as Assistant Boys Varsity Coach and Head Junior Varsity Coach in 1992. Baker worked with Chaney about three months before Chaney resigned to take a position with Laurel Baptist Academy.
Baker worked under Head Coach Frank Phieffer for two years where they amassed an incredible record of 68-13 playing all games on the road. Canterbury didn’t have a gymnasium so to have a two-year winning percentage of 84 percent is unbelievable, while playing the likes of Oak Hill, St. Johns Prospect Hall (Stu Vetter), St. Anthony’s (NJ), Simon Gratz (PA) and St. Raymond's (NY) nationally known high school programs. Canterbury School basketball program was propelled on to the national stage.
As Junior Varsity Coach, Baker’s team finished the season 18-2 and won the Washington Small School Varsity League with a team consisting of 8th and 9th graders.
In 1994, Coach Baker joined Chaney’s staff as Associate Head Coach at Laurel Baptist Academy. He brought several of the underclassmen from Canterbury to Laurel Baptist including Louis Bullock who would be the 1995 Player of the Year by the Washington Post, as well as, Maryland’s all-time leading scorer and McDonald’s All-American.
Bullock to this day still holds the record for points in a game for the Capitol Classic All-Star Game (40 points). That same year Laurel Baptist would beat USA Today’s #2 Ranked team St. Johns Prospect Hall in overtime, on a three pointer by Bullock, would score 40 points.
Laurel Baptist finished the year Ranked #3 in the Washington Post Final Boys Basketball Poll and a national ranking in several prep polls.
At Oxon Hill Coach Baker served as an assistant to Billy Lanier considered one of the counties greatest coaches in county history.
After Coach Lanier step down in 2007, Coach Baker remained on staff with new Coach Richard Little. Little was one of Lanier’s former players from his state championship team. In 2010, Coach Baker’s last season at Oxon Hill the Clippers won the County Championship.
