Hofstra University Athletics

Aaron Swinson joined the Hofstra women's basketball coaching staff in November 2020 and is entering his fourth season with the Pride in 2023-24.

Swinson is a highly experienced coaching professional with nearly three decades of experience playing and coaching high levels of basketball. Swinson arrives at Hofstra from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, where he began his tenure with the Lady Demons in September 2018 as an Assistant Coach. Following the 2018-19 season, Swinson was promoted to an Associate Head Coach and was eventually named Interim Head Coach this past January.
 
Swinson's collegiate coaching career began at the University of Tulsa in 2005 when he spent six years as an assistant on the Golden Hurricanes staff. Following his tenure in Oklahoma, Swinson served as an assistant coach at the University of Cincinnati for five seasons before moving on to an assistant coaching role for two years at Prairie View A&M University in Texas.
 
In addition to 15 years of Division I women's basketball coaching experience, Swinson brings both professional coaching experience and varsity head coaching experience to Hofstra. Swinson's coaching career began overseas as he spent time as an assistant men's basketball coach with Los Barrios B-Team in Spain. Following his first coaching assignment, Swinson moved back to the United States and was the varsity head coach at Holland Hall Preparatory School in Tulsa, directing both the upper- and middle-school girls basketball programs. He returned to the professional ranks in 2007, spending one season as an assistant head coach with the Tulsa 66er's (now Oklahoma City Blue), the NBA G League team for the Oklahoma City Thunder.
 
Professional development has been important to Swinson as well, as he participated in the 2016 Women's Basketball Coaches Association's Center for Coaching Excellence, was part of the Black Coaches Association's Achieving Coaching Excellence Program and participated in the Minority Coaches Leadership Development seminar. 
 
Swinson was a three-year letterman and two-year starter for the men's basketball program at Auburn University. A two-time captain and two-time All-SEC honoree, Swinson scored 1,368 career points (t-17th in Auburn history), while his 16.9 points per game ranks eighth all-time. Swinson finished his career shooting 60.9 percent from the field, trailing only Charles Barkley on Auburn's all-time list.
 
Following his storied career at Auburn, Swinson played professional basketball for 11 years.  Swinson joined the Phoenix Suns before he was drafted in the first round of the Continental Basketball Association draft by the Yakima Sun Kings. He was named to the All-Rookie First Team and was named the team's most valuable player before moving on to play 12 seasons internationally in Italy, Spain, France and Argentina.
 
A native of Brunswick, Georgia, Swinson earned his undergraduate degree in Adult Education in 2005, and eventually went on to receive his M.A. in Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati in 2014. Swinson is married to his wife, Charlene. He has four children, Charles, Jada, Randall and Erin, and one grandchild, Sorverik.