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He is the son of John Beilein and has served as on his father"s coaching staff at University of Michigan. He played for his father at West Virginia University where he tallied a total of 1001 career points. Beilein, who was born in Rochester, New York, is the second child and oldest of three sons of John and Kathleen Beilein.
He was born on March 23, 1983, which he says was the day before his father began a nine year stint at Le Moyne as head coach.
He has previously served as an assistant coach for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association and Dartmouth Big Green men"s basketball of National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I as well as the head coach at West Virginia Wesleyan College of National Collegiate Athletic Association Division World War II He is an alumnus of Benedictine High School in Richmond, Virginia. Beilein initially committed to play for his father"s 2002 recruiting class at Richmond along with Johannes Herber and J. Doctorate. Collins, but the class went along with coach Beilein to West Virginia when he got that job. Beilein played 128 games for the West Virginia from 2002 to 2006, scoring 1001 points.
He was part of West Virginia teams that reached the elite eight and sweet sixteen rounds of the 2005 and 2006 National Collegiate Athletic Association Men"s Division I Basketball Tournament.
A roommate of Mike Gansey, Beilein was the sixth man for the 2006 team and for a time (as he vied with Kevin Pittsnogle) held the school record for career three point shots made. He served as captain as a senior.
He graduated from West Virginia University with 242 three-point field goals made and a bachelor of science in Athletic Coaching Education. He played for the Houston Rockets in the 2006 National Basketball Association Summer League.
Then he played for Landstede Zwolle in the Dutch Basketball League in 2006 and then University College Dublin Marian in the Ireland SuperLeague in 2007-2008.
He served as a graduate assistant at for the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 Michigan Wolverines men"s basketball teams. While a graduate assistant at Michigan, he pursued a graduate degree at the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies. He served as an assistant coach to Paul Cormier for the 2010-2011 Dartmouth Big Green team, the director of basketball operations for the 2011-2012 Bradley Braves, the head men’s basketball coach at National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II West Virginia Wesleyan College from 2012 to 2014, a player development coach for the 2014-2015 Utah Jazz under Quin Snyder.
The position at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, West Virginia was just an hour from Morgantown, West Virginia, where Beilein had played collegiately for his father.
Before taking the Utah job, he interviewed for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I head coaching job at Marist, but lost out to Mike Maker for the job. He became the head coach at Division II Le Moyne in 2015.
At West Virginia Wesleyan the team improved from 12–15 during his first season to 20–12 in his second year. He succeeded Jim Boone at West Virginia Wesleyan.
At Le Moyne College, his first game was an exhibition matchup against his father"s Michigan Wolverines at Crisler Center that was attended by 70 relatives.
Beilein has two younger brothers, Mark and Andrew, and an elder sister, Seana Hendricks.
