Donny Lind

Donny Lind

Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Mount St. Mary's
Conference	MAAC
Record	10–5 (.667)
Biographical details
Born	December 15, 1986 New Knoxville, Ohio, U.S.
Alma mater	Loyola Maryland ('10)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2013–2016	Mount St. Mary's (assistant)
2016–2021	Radford (assistant)
2021–2024	UNC Greensboro (assistant)
2024–present	Mount St. Mary's
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
2010–2013	VCU (video coordinator)
Head coaching record
Overall	10–5 (.667)

Donny Lind is an American college basketball coach who has been the men's basketball head coach at Mount St. Mary's University since April 20, 2024.

Coaching career

Lind was a student manager and video coordinator with the Greyhounds men's basketball program under head coach Jimmy Patsos at Loyola University Maryland where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 2010.^[1]

He was a graduate manager for one season before his promotion to video coordinator during his three years with Shaka Smart's staff at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) from 2010 to 2013. The Rams qualified for the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament in all three seasons, reaching the Final Four for the first time in the program's history in 2011. Lind earned a Master of Sport Leadership degree from VCU.^[1]

He joined the staff of his former VCU assistant coaching colleague Jamion Christian at Mount St. Mary's University in 2013. He was the recruiting coordinator who also oversaw the team's offense. The Mountaineers appeared in the NCAA tournament in the first of Lind's three years at Mount St. Mary's in 2014.^[1]

Lind was reunited with another former VCU assistant coaching colleague Mike Jones at Radford University when he was named an assistant in charge of the offense on June 23, 2016.^[2] The Highlanders made it to the NCAA tournament in the second of his five seasons at Radford in 2018. He made the transition with Jones to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in a similar capacity in 2021.^[3]

He returned to Mount St. Mary's when he accepted its men's basketball head coaching position on April 20, 2024.^[4] He succeeded Dan Engelstad who announced his resignation ten days prior on April 10.^[5] Lind inherited a program with a 40–55 overall record in the three seasons since its previous NCAA tournament appearance in 2021.^[6]

Personal life

Lind is a native of New Knoxville, Ohio.^[4]

References

1. Donny Lind (profile) – Radford University Athletics. Retrieved April 21, 2024.
2. "Men's Basketball Adds David Boyden, Donny Lind to Coaching Staff," Radford University Athletics, Thursday, June 23, 2016. Retrieved April 21, 2024.
3. Donny Lind (profile) – University of North Carolina at Greensboro Athletics. Retrieved April 21, 2024.
4. "Mount St. Mary’s Names Donny Lind as Men’s Basketball Head Coach," Mount St. Mary's University Athletics, Saturday, April 20, 2024. Retrieved April 21, 2024.
5. "Dan Engelstad Resigns as Mount St. Mary's Head Men's Basketball Coach," Mount St. Mary's University Athletics, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Retrieved April 21, 2024.
6. Steinwedel, Dylan. "New Mount St. Mary’s Men’s Basketball HC Donny Lind: Pursuing Job Was ‘No-Brainer,'" PressBox (Baltimore, MD), Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Retrieved May 7, 2024.