Elliott Butcher begins his third season as an assistant men's basketball coach at Rhode Island College.
Butcher most recently led the Central Falls High School track program from 2016-2018 as their Head Boys Track Coach. From 2005-2012, Butcher worked at the Moses Brown School, in Providence. As the Head Boys Basketball Coach from 2005-2012, he won a pair of Rhode Island Division III state championships in 2008 and 2009, as well as back-to-back RIBCA Championship Coach of the Year awards. Starting one year prior, in 2004, and continuing through 2012, Butcher was the head track and field coach at Moses Brown. Under his leadership and coaching, his student-athletes won the NEPSAC All New England Championship in the Boys 100m event (2007, 2010, 2011), the Boys 4x100m relay (2011), and Boys 4x400m Relay (2005). In total, Butcher developed and coached 53 individual league champions, 11 relay champions, and five All New England champions. His track and field programs earned team recognition as well, as the SENE Track and Field League Champions for the boys (2009 & 2010) and for the girls (2009, 2010, and 2011).
A highly sought-after trainer, Butcher has run SRS Basketball Training since 1991, directed basketball training clinics for the Garner Road AAU program in Raleigh, North Carolina (Fall 2012, Summer 2015) and directed the Skills Champ Basketball Camp here in Rhode Island during the summer of 2010. Butcher also coached at Monmouth University’s Summer Basketball Camp each summer, from 2012 to 2015.
As a teacher, Butcher has taught in local classrooms at the Veazie Street and Young Woods Elementary Schools, as well as at Times Squared Academy.
Butcher has impacted the local community in a variety of ways over the last 10-plus years. From 2010-2013 he served as the Director of Teen Programs for the Boys and Girls Club of Providence. He then went on to serve as the Substance Abuse Counselor at the Discovery House from 2015-2021. And finally, from February 2019 to March 2020, he served as the Community Liaison for the Foster Care and Adoption Program at Communities 4 People, Inc.
Butcher is a veteran of the famed Rucker tournament, “Goat” Tournament and City Wide Tournaments in New York. As a Division I collegiate athlete at the University of Rhode Island, Butcher competed in track for all four years and served as the captain his senior year.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Rhode Island in 1980.
