UMBC head men's basketball coach Jim Ferry announced that Ceasar Adim and Gabe Maturo have been elevated to assistant coaches.
 
"Ceasar has proven himself to be incredibly valuable to our program and is deserving of this promotion," Ferry stated. "He works extremely hard each and every day to support our student-athletes both on and off the court. We are fortunate to have Ceasar here at UMBC and he's got a bright future ahead of him coaching."
 
Adim joined the Retrievers as a graduate assistant for the 2021-22 season before his promotion to Director of Basketball Operations in 2022-23. 

Prior to arriving in Baltimore, Adim was chosen as an inaugural McLendon Minority Future Leader out of 500+ Candidates. A program championed by Kentucky head coach John Calipari, Harvard head coach Tommy Amaker, and numerous other coaches.

Adim spent the 2020-21 season at Kentucky, working in Athletics Operations with Men's Basketball.

Adim began his career in 2016 as a student at Kentucky working with the Men's Basketball program as a video assistant under Head Coach John Calipari. While working closely with the coaching staff/support staff he assisted with scouting edits, video analysis, documenting shooting charts and player statistics during games, workouts, and practice. Adim later went on to UMass where he worked under head coach Matt McCall as a senior manager and program assistant for the Men's Basketball program.

Adim committed to UMass out of high school, but his playing career was cut short prior to the start of his first season due to a career-ending knee injury that resulted in five surgeries.

In addition, Adim founded the Ceasar Adim Basketball camp in 2019. He raised and organized his very own free basketball camp for over 50 kids in the City of Boston.

A graduate of UMass with a degree in Communication and Political Science, he was selected to the National Honor Society. He is currently pursuing a master's degree in Business Entrepreneurship Leadership at UMBC.

A native of Roxbury, Mass, Adim was a four-year letter winner at the Brooks School in North Andover, Mass, where he was an all-league standout for basketball and soccer respectively.
 
Maturo joined the men's basketball coaching staff as a graduate assistant in January 2022 and added Director of Player Development & Student-Athlete Welfare duties during the 2022-23 season.  
 
"Gabe has done an outstanding job with player development and makes sure that our student-athletes are well cared for on an everyday basis," Ferry said. "It's always a bonus to have a UMBC graduate as a member of the staff. Gabe's ability to coach the game on the floor in practice and on game day makes him extremely valuable to our program."

Maturo has been with the men's basketball program since the 2018-19 season working as a manager for the first two seasons before being promoted to head manager before his appointment as graduate assistant.

In May 2022, he was selected as a participant in the TopConnect Graduate Assistant Leadership Academy, led by Stanford Assistant Coach Rob Ehsan. Maturo was one of 20 graduate assistants from all levels of the NCAA to be nominated to the program.

Maturo has plenty of basketball experience outside of UMBC, having worked for The Basketball Tournament (TBT) since 2020 as a content assistant.

In the summer and winter of 2019-20, Maturo held an internship at the Patuxent Naval Base, where he worked in information technology for the government. 

Maturo graduated from UMBC in the December 2021 with a bachelor's degree in Information Systems, with a minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He earned a master's degree in Information Systems from UMBC this past spring. 

A native of Fairfield, Pa., Maturo was a three-year letter winner at Fairfield High School where he was a varsity standout. In 2018, as a senior, he earned Team MVP honors and a nomination to the annual Maryland vs. Pennsylvania All-Star game.