University of the Pacific

Calvin Byrd returns for his 10th year as an assistant coach at Pacific.

Calvin spent four years with the Tigers from 2001-05. Byrd helped the Tigers to a school-record 27 wins in the 2004-05 season. Byrd returns to Pacific after spending the last five years as an assistant coach in the West Coast Conference. He moved on after the 2005 season to take a position at Loyola Marymount. After three seasons with the Lions, Calvin returned to the University of San Francisco, where he was for the last two seasons. It was his second turn with the Dons, as he spent two seasons as an assistant coach from 1999-2001, helping the Dons to a 31-27 record.

After a standout career at Villanova University, Byrd played professional basketball in the Atlantic Basketball Association and in Switzerland.

He began his coaching career as an assistant coach at his alma mater, St. Joseph Notre Dame High School in Oakland in 1996. Calvin was a McDonald's All-American at St. Joseph's HS after his senior year in 1989. He then moved on to his first NCAA Division I coaching job at UC Irvine in the 1998-99 season.

Calvin and his wife, Jodie, live in Stockton with their daughter, Alex, and son, Miles.