After serving the previous two years as a graduate assistant for the Missouri State men’s basketball staff, Michael Collins was promoted to a full-time role in 2020 as the program’s director of basketball operations.
Collins was part of coach Dana Ford’s first staff at Missouri State and joined the Bears in the fall of 2018 while pursuing his master’s in Sports Management, which he completed in May of 2020.
Previously, he worked with the men’s basketball staff at Colorado State University in Fort Collins where he completed his undergraduate work in 2017 with a double major in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. At CSU, he served as head manager for three seasons from 2014-17 before taking on the role of video coordinator in August of 2017.
He joined the CSU coaching staff in the spring of 2018 under interim Rams head coach Jase Herl, who is also part of the current Missouri State coaching staff under Ford.
Originally from Highlands Ranch, Colo., Collins has also worked extensively with team travel, logistics and accommodations during his time at Missouri State.
