In his first year as Lackawanna Men's Basketball coach. Coach Archer brings a winning track record to the Falcons program. As an assistant Coach Archer has managed to compile a record of 61-27. While as an assistant coach archer has had the opportunity to Coach two NJCAA All Americans over the course of three years.

The formula for Coach Archer's success will be recruiting skilled athletes as well as students who stay focused on graduating. As a result the Falcons will win and provide entertainment for their fans.

Prior to being named Head coach, Coach Archer was an Assistant at Lackawanna College for the past three seasons. Coach Archer also served as a Video Coordinator from 2007-2008 for Rice University. In 2006-2007 Coach Archer served as the graduate assistant at Texas Southern University.

Coach Archer also has experience at the secondary level in physical education and in private basketball instruction.

A native of Trinity, TX, Archer was a leading scorer for the Trinity High School Tigers, earning a position on the TSWA all-state squad. A graduate of Texas Southern University, Archer holds both an M.S. and bachelor's degree in Human Performance.

In just a short amount of time LaVon Barnes has made quite a name for himself in basketball. Barnes, who has coached on the AAU, High School, Junior College, Division 1, and Professional level. He started his coaching career as a student-assistant coach while attending Campbell University.

After graduating, Coach Barnes took a high school job as the JV Head and Associate Head Coach (2004-06) to one of the premier high school powerhouses in the state of Maryland Eleanor Roosevelt High School, where they played in 2 state championship games. There he coached 12 Division 1 basketball players including Darnell Dodson (Kentucky), and Lasan Kromah (George Washington). He was also a coach with the famous DC Assault AAU basketball team which had the likes of Michael Beasley (Minnesota Timberwolves, Nolan Smith (Duke), and Austin Freeman (Georgetown).

After his 2 year stint at the high school level, Coach Barnes set his sites on the Division 1 level where he accepted an assistant coach position at Prairie View A&M University (2006-2008) where he was 2nd youngest assistant coach in the country and helped recruit the 35th best recruiting class in the country and also recruited eventual SWAC Newcomer of the Year Brian Ezeh, and SWAC Player of the Year Darnell Hugee.

Barnes eventually took the Associate Head Coaching job at Cedar Valley College. After a short stint at Cedar Valley College, Coach Barnes accepted the Head Coaching position for the Jacksonville Admirals of the United States Basketball Association making him the youngest coach in the league with the likes of Tree Rollins and other former Head Division 1 coaches.

Coach Barnes is currently the Head Coach of the SW Elite AAU team out of Dallas, TX where in just 2 years have become one of the hottest programs in the state. He has worked numerous college basketball camps around the United States and has also worked internationally with Five Star Basketball in China and Australia