Camryn Crocker is in his first season as assistant coach at Illinois after being hired on May 15, 2025. He also serves as the Illini defensive coordinator.

A former Ivy League player at Penn, Crocker has a decade of coaching experience, most recently as an assistant at Colgate.

Crocker spent the last three seasons as an assistant coach at Colgate under head coach Matt Langel. During Crocker’s tenure, the Raiders won back-to-back Patriot League championships in 2023 and 2024, earning automatic trips to the NCAA Tournament. Colgate set a school record with 26 wins during his first season and won 25 games in year two. The Raiders also had two Patriot League Players of the Year and five first-team All-Patriot League selections during his tenure.

Prior to Colgate, Crocker joined the college ranks at Stanford, serving three seasons as director of player development under then-head coach Jerod Haase. Stanford won 20 games and had the No. 7-ranked defense by kenpom during his first season in 2019-20. The Cardinal also produced four future NBA players from his time on staff.

Before Stanford, Crocker was an assistant coach for three years at Northfield Mount Hermon (NMH), a prep school in Gill, Massachusetts. The program had a combined 93-18 record during his stint, advancing to three-straight New England AAA championships and twice appearing in the National Prep Championships in 2017 and 2018. 

Crocker’s coaching career started in Los Angeles, as an assistant coach for one season at Verbum Dei High School. That is also when he began coaching in the Nike EYBL circuit, which he continued throughout his time at NMH. 

Crocker played four years of college basketball at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as team captain during his senior season of 2014-15 and earned two degrees from Penn, a Bachelor of Arts in 2015 and a Master of Science in Education in 2018.

Crocker is a native of Cypress, California, and has a wife, Taylor.