TALLAHASSEE— Former Florida A&M University basketball coach Mike Gillespie pleaded no contest today to charges of stalking a former girlfriend, and was sentenced to a year of probation.
The court also ordered Gillespie, who is married, to permanently stay away from the victim in the case.
Gillespie was fired last month. Police had said they warned Gillespie in 2005 and again the night before he was arrested in May to stay away from the woman. He was arrested after driving by her workplace the morning after the latest warning.
Gillespie completed his sixth season at Florida A&M earlier this year, taking the team to its first 20-win season since 1988-89 and its second NCAA tournament berth in his tenure.
A formal search is currently underway by FAMU to hire a replacement head basketball coach. Mike Gillespie Jr., who served his father as an assistant basketball coach for the FAMU men's program was hired last week by Wichita State University, as an assistant coach for the women basketball program.
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