Jeremy Grubbs joined Pepperdine in April 2024 as an assistant men's basketball coach on Ed Schilling’s staff. He enters his second season with the Waves in 2025-26.
In his first season in Malibu in 2024-25, Grubbs helped lead the Waves to their first WCC Semifinal appearance in four seasons as Pepperdine won three consecutive games in the tournament, knocking off Portland, Oregon State and Santa Clara in consecutive days.
From 2005 to present day, Grubbs has been involved with basketball at several levels. He graduated from Pittsburgh, where he was a basketball student assistant under Jamie Dixon during the 2008 Big East Championship season and then began his career as an assistant a La Roche College for two seasons, contributing to game planning, practices, scouting and film while specializing in team conditioning. Since then, Grubbs has coached four high school programs as well as a graduate assistantship at Marshall from 2013-15 under fellow assistant coach Scott Rigot. While coaching in the prep division, Grubbs trained and coached professional players such as Miles Bridges, Keldon Johnson, J.T. Thor and Jonathan Kuminga.
Grubbs was also a Division I letter winner in track at Robert Morris University and won the prestigious Impossible Is Nothing Adidas campaign for overcoming adversity where they filmed a commercial based on his life in sports.
Most recently, Grubbs held the head coaching position at Freedom Area High School in Pennsylvania where he led his team to earn triple the number of wins from the previous season and concluded the program’s most successful season in a decade.
