Ex-Washington Basketball Forward Blazing His Own Unique Coaching Trail

You can take Jernard Jarreau out of Louisiana, briefly. But you can’t remove the Bayou from the former Washington Huskies power forward.

The 6-foot-10 New Orleans native made 29 starts and appeared in 53 total games from 2011-15 for Lorenzo Romar, and proved to be a consistent presence in the paint alongside teammates Desmond Simmons, Shawn Kemp Jr., and in his final season, Robert Upshaw.

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Jarreau averaged 3.9 points and 3.4 rebounds at UW over his three playing seasons—with one redshirt year in 2011-12—before he opted to return to his home state to finish out his college basketball career at Tulane for then-coach Ed Conroy.

Although Jarreau enjoyed personal success with career highs in scoring average (7.9 points per game) and rebounds (5.6 boards per game), he made 10 fewer starts for the Green Wave than he did his final season under Romar.

Team success didn’t materialize either, with the American Athletic Conference program ending the 2015-16 season with a 12-22 overall record, despite three players averaging double figures that season and having three more wins the previous season under Conroy.

True to his roots, Jarreau made his way back to New Orleans after a stint with the Windsor Express, a Canadian professional men’s basketball team based in Windsor, Ontario, to reinvest himself in his community and build out his own basketball coaching journey.

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Jarreau spent a little over two years working for Collegiate Academies, which is characterized on the organization’s LinkedIn profile as “the first charter management organization in New Orleans to focus solely on high schools,” with the former Husky hired as a physical education teacher from June 2023-25.

That foray into working with high schoolers in The Big Easy grew simultaneously into an opportunity to be the head boys basketball coach at Livingston Collegiate Academy, a public charter school at the 3A level in Louisiana. Similar to his tenure returning to the Bayou State at Tulane to end his…

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Publish date : 2026-10-19 12:01:00

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