John McGinty enters his fourth season at NIU where he works with the team’s guards.
McGinty worked with the Huskies backcourt in 2015-16, where three different players averaged 10-or-more points per game in the first year of Carlsen’s system. Featured in the guard’s high-level play was Ally Lehman (13.5 PPG and 11.0 RPG), who earned Third Team All-MAC honors and became just the fifth player in NIU history to average a double-double in a season. In 2017-18, Courtney Woods led the MAC in scoring and was named First Team All-MAC.
McGinty made the move directly from Lewis with Carlsen in 2015. In his first season on the bench with the Flyers, Lewis opened the season 23-0 to earn the No. 1 ranking for five-consecutive weeks in the Division II polls. The Flyers also defeated three Division I opponents in that time.
The program would finish the season 31-3 overall and 17-1, a new Great Lakes Valley Conference record, en route to the program’s first ever berth to the Elite Eight in 2014-15. McGinty began working with Lewis women’s basketball program in 2012-13 as a practice player while working towards his Master’s degree.
Prior to his season on the bench at Lewis, McGinty coached at St. Laurence High School, where he was an assistant coach with the boy’s varsity team, as well as the head coach of the boy’s freshmen team in 2012-13 and the head coach of the junior varsity team in 2013-14. McGinty also has AAU coaching experience, spending a season with Full Package Athletics in 2013 and The Athlete Within (TAW) in 2014.
In addition to his coaching duties at Lewis, the Chicago native served as the Compliance Assistant for three years. McGinty graduated from Iowa in 2012 with a degree in sports studies and worked towards his master’s at Lewis in organizational leadership, finishing in 2015.
“John brings an element of trust because we worked together last year and he showed a great understanding of the X’s and O’s of the game. He demonstrated that during the postseason last year and really helped us make some great adjustments and strategical moves. He has a great love for the game and his familiarity with what I expect and what we’re trying to do here make him a great asset to the staff,” said Head Coach Lisa Carlsen.
