Peterson came to Missouri State in 2024 as the program's director of basketball operations.
He spent the previous two seasons as an assistant coach under Marty Simmons at Eastern Illinois University from 2021 to 2023.
During his time at EIU, Peterson helped rebuild the Panthers' roster with eight new players in 2022-23, while boasting 10 OVC Freshman of the Week award winners by four different players and collecting the OVC Freshman of the Year and one OVC All-Newcomer Team honoree. He was also instrumental in Eastern Illinois' upset of Iowa in the regular season, which was rated as one of the biggest upsets in college basketball in the past 30 years.
Prior to his time at Eastern Illinois, he served two seasons under
Cuonzo Martin as a graduate assistant at Missouri from 2019-21. While there, he was part of a 2021 Tigers' squad that spent 11 consecutive weeks in the AP Top 25, reaching as high as No. 10 nationally, and defeated six conference champions.
Peterson began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Oak Park (Ill.) River Forest High (2007-15) and later became head coach at Walter Payton College Prep in Chicago where he served from 2015-19. While at Payton, his teams won more than 60 games with conference championships in 2016 and 2019 and made two IHSA regional appearances.
In addition to his coaching experience, he has worked as director of The Brudas, Inc., a non-profit youth basketball organization founded by former NBA player Iman Shumpert. As a high school and grassroots coach, he helped over two dozen youth go on to play college basketball.
Peterson earned his undergraduate degree in Communications from DePaul in 2011 and later earned master's degrees from Concordia (Ill.) in 2015 and Missouri in 2021.
He is married to the former Veronica Hicks, and has two sons, Jordan and Brendan.
