Coach Donny Lind shares his journey from attempting to walk on at Loyola Maryland to becoming one of the highly touted up-and-coming coaches in NCAA Division 1.
He was a Student Manager under Jimmy Patsos at Loyola Maryland before being hired as a Graduate Assistant at VCU under Shaka Smart. Coach Lind was eventually promoted to Video Coordinator, while at VCU they had unprecedented success winning 84 games, a CAA Championship, and appeared in the NCAA Tournament in each of his three years on staff. In 2011 the Rams advanced to the Final Four.
Jamion Christian hired him at Mount St Mary's where they would win the NEC Tournament and advanced to the NCAA Tournament in Lind's first season on staff.
In April of 2016 Coach Lind was named to National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Under Armor 30-under-30 list and subsequently moved on to Radford to be an Assistant Coach under Mike Jones.
During his five seasons at Radford he was an integral part of their regular season and post season success. He was instrumental in the development of Carlik Jones and was named one of the top 50 Impactful Low Major Coach in DI and the third best AC in the Big South by Jeff Goodman, Stadium Basketball Insider.
After Wes Miller accepted the job at Cincinnati, Mike Jones was named the Head Coach at UNCG and Coach Lind went with him.
