Paris Parham

Biography

Paris Parham joined the DePaul basketball staff in May 2021 as an assistant coach after spending the previous four seasons at UW-Milwaukee. He remained on head coach Chris Holtmann's staff in 2024-25, helping DePaul to an 11 win increase from the previous season. In his first season at DePaul in 2021-22, he helped the Blue Demons to a strong finish to the season that saw 15 wins. The 15 victories are the highest total for a first-year staff at DePaul since the 2002-03 season. The Blue Demons closed the regular season by winning three of their final four games that included victories over Georgetown, St. John’s and Marquette. Individually, Javon Freeman-Liberty was named second team All-BIG EAST and led the league in scoring throughout the season. The Chicago native was a three-time BIG EAST Player of the Week and picked up the conference’s Weekly Honor Roll recognition three other times. Yor Anei (49 blocked shots) and Nick Ongenda (52 blocked shots) became the first duo in program history to each record at least 40 blocked shots in a season. Parham, a Chicago native, has been in collegiate coaching for nearly two decades that includes previous stops for five seasons each at Illinois and Illinois State. Prior to his four seasons at Milwaukee, he spent five years as an assistant coach at Illinois. While a member of John Groce's Fighting Illini staff, the squad averaged 19 victories per year and made postseason appearances three times, winning nearly 100 games (95-75). Parham a