Reed Ridder is in his first season at Georgia Southern after spending the last two seasons as a graduate manager at Georgia.
He enjoyed a strong collegiate career, playing three seasons for his father, Steve Ridder, at NCAA II Embry-Riddle University after playing for NCAA II Lynn University as a freshman. He went on to play professionally overseas for two seasons – Australia 2016-17 and Spain 2017-18.
Ridder scored 1,003 career points and helped lead Embry-Riddle to a 35-2 record, the Florida Sun Conference championship and the semifinals of the NAIA Division II National Championship as a junior. He finished his career ranked eighth in program history with 181 3-pointers made.
Ridder comes from a rich basketball family. His father, Steve, was inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame with 683 career wins. His brother, Ryan, is the head coach at Bethune-Cookman and is the fourth-youngest NCAA Division I men’s basketball head coach in the country. Ryan led Bethune-Cookman to the 2018 MEAC regular-season championship and won the Joe B. Hall Award as the nation’s top first-year Division I men’s basketball coach.
Reed earned a bachelor’s in business administration from Embry-Riddle in 2016 and is currently pursuing his master’s in sport management.
