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Lindsey Spann Assistant coach and recruiting coordinator, Maryland women’s basketball team

Having just turned 27 in December, Lindsey Spann, an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the Maryland women’s basketball team, is closer in age to the players she’s tasked with molding than the head coach who hired her in 2019, Brenda Frese.

But don’t let the former Penn State and South Carolina shooting guard’s youth fool you.

Spann grew up in Laurel and graduated from Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic High School in Olney. Last year she was named by Silver Waves Media as one of the Most Impactful Assistant Coaches in the sport. That followed her being cited in 2021 as one of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association’s Thirty Under 30 honorees.

Spann, who scored more than 1,000 points in three seasons with the Nittany Lions, earned a bachelor’s degree in public relations from Penn State University in 2017 and a master’s in sport and entertainment management from the University of South Carolina in 2019.

— Edward Lee