POMONA - Lorenzo Griffin is the newest assistant on the Cal Poly Pomona women's basketball bench, as announced Friday by 14th-year head coach Danelle Bishop.

Griffin makes the short, merely-four-mile trip south from the University of La Verne, where he was a graduate assistant on head coach Richard Reed's men's staff for the past two seasons. The Leopards are members of the NCAA Division III and the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC).

Griffin's responsibilities at La Verne included individual skill development, recruiting, scouting reports, film editing, fundraising, coordination of pregame on-court workouts, travel, camps, and the team's social media, among others.

Apart from his coaching duties with the Leopards, Griffin completed his Master of Science in Leadership and Management (MSLM) last December from La Verne, with a concentration in organizational development. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Marketing from Waldorf University in Forest City, Iowa, in May of 2010. Griffin averaged 8.7 points, 3.8 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game as a senior for the Warriors while shooting 90 percent from the free throw line, second nationally in the NAIA Division II.

For nine years prior to his arrival at La Verne, Griffin was a professional player and youth coach in Germany, taking the court for TSV Wasserburg (2012-19) and TV Traunstein Chiemgau Baskets (2019-21). He averaged 23.4 points, 6.4 assists and 4.6 rebounds per game during his time in Germany, with his 3,851 points a club record for TSV Wasserburg in the Bayernliga. A two-time Bayernliga/Oberliga All-Star in 2018 and 2019, Griffin won five Bayernliga South Division scoring titles (2014-19). He has played elsewhere all across Europe in showcase events in Croatia, the Czech Republic, Moldova and Romania.

Griffin's coaching experience while abroad involved boy's and girl's teams ranging between the ages of eight and 20. His squads won multiple league championships at various age levels from 2013-19.

"Coach Zo" is a Riverside product and 2005 graduate of Riverside Poly High School. He joins Tyler Frierson on Bishop's staff for the upcoming season. Frierson will be in her second go-around with the Broncos.

Cal Poly Pomona is coming off of a successful 2022-23 campaign during which it went 18-11 overall and 14-8 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The Broncos placed in a tie for fourth in the CCAA with Chico State, before falling to nationally-ranked regular-season champion Cal State Dominguez Hills in the semifinals of the CCAA Tournament in Turlock on March 3.

The Broncos earned an at-large berth into the 2023 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Championship, marking the program's seventh NCAA postseason qualification in 12 tries under Bishop, and exactly one week later on March 10 as the No. 8 seed, were upended again by the top-seeded host Toros on the opening night of the West Regional in Carson. Cal State Dominguez Hills went on to win its first-ever West Region crown and lose in the national quarterfinals in St. Joseph, Mo.

Cal Poly Pomona's 2023-24 schedule will be posted at a later date on BroncoAthletics.com.