Adim joined the Retrievers as a graduate assistant for the 2021-22 season and assumed the Assistant Coach title prior to the 2023-24 season.
Since joining head coachÂ
Jim Ferry's staff for the 2021-22 season, Adim has played a key role in UMBC's success, including helping lead the Retrievers to the 2025–26 America East Championship and an appearance in the NCAA Tournament First Four.
This past summer, Adim was selected as an assistant coach for the Nigerian Men's National Team during the the 2026 FIBA Basketball World Cup African Qualifiers. The qualifiers took place July 2–5 in Luanda, Angola, where Nigeria competed against Angola, Guinea, Tunisia, and Rwanda and won the event. Adim joined the national team staff under head coach David Fizdale, a former NBA head coach with the Memphis Grizzlies and New York Knicks, and a recent assistant with the Phoenix Suns. Fizdale selected Adim with aspirations of leading Nigeria to the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. Adim's selection highlights his rising profile in collegiate basketball and his continued impact on the international stage.
Adim helped UMBC deliver back-to-back 18-win seasons in his first two years. The Retrievers stormed into the 2021-22 America East Championship game after a stellar regular-season run, and even pulled off a headline-making victory against Power 5 foe Pittsburgh (ACC) in non-conference play. In 2022-23, UMBC hosted a first-round conference tournament game and shattered previous records with 10 non-conference wins. The excitement peaked in 2025-26 as the Retrievers clinched their third America East regular-season title, dominating league play with a 14-2 record.  The team sealed their unforgettable season by toppling Vermont in a packed, electric Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena to claim an NCAA Tournament berth.
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.
The purpose of the McLendon Minority Leadership Initiative (MLI) is to provide minorities a jump-start to their careers through practical experiences, opportunities to build their network, and instilling the values of John McLendon: Integrity, Education, Leadership, and Mentorship. Through this initiative, Adim spent the 2020-21 season at Kentucky, working in Athletics Operations with Men’s and Women's Basketball.
In March 2021, Adim was tabbed to be part of the NCAA Tournament working as a Team Ambassador. He served as key contact liaison between the NCAA and assigned teams in the bubble. He also provided assistance to the day-to-day operations of each team he was assigned to while working closely with the coaching staff and primary administrator for Villanova, Michigan, and Florida State, among others.
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 collegiate 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 an undergraduate degree in Communication and Political Science, he was selected to the National Honor Society. He received a Masters’s degree in Business Entrepreneurship Leadership at UMBC in 2023.
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.
