Jud Kinne is in his first season as Associate Head Coach for HCU after serving the past 13 seasons as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the Huskies.
Kinne helped the 2016-17 Huskies to the program’s most successful campaign since returning to Division I as they went 17-14 overall and 12-6 in league play to tie for second and earn the fourth seed in the Southland Conference Tournament. HCU closed the regular season with nine-straight victories and reached postseason play for the second-consecutive year, receiving a bid to the CollegeInsider.com Tournament where the Huskies faced Campbell.
In 2015-16, the Huskies went 17-17 overall and earned the fourth seed in the Southland Conference Tournament with a 10-8 league mark. HCU posted its first Southland Conference Tournament victory with a 73-68 win over Southeastern Louisiana in the quarterfinals, then made the program’s first NCAA postseason appearance since 1984 with a spot in the College Basketball Invitational.
The Charlotte, Michigan native came to HCU after serving three seasons as associate head coach at Central Arizona College. He began his coaching career as a student assistant at Albion College, a highly successful Division III school in Albion, Mich., under Mike Turner, who won 527 games to rank among Division III’s all-time leaders.
Kinne was head coach at Marygrove College in Detroit for two years, coaching four all-Americans. Prior, he spent one season at Arizona State, serving under National Coach of the Year, Rob Evans, and assisting with travel, on-campus recruiting, scouting and film exchange for the Sun Devils. He also spent one season at Centenary.
He and his wife, Amanda, have a 15-year old daughter, Madilyn, a sophomore at Carnegie Vanguard High School.
