Lindsay Edmonds (

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Smith) is an American

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coach who is currently the head coach of the

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women's basketball team. She previously served as an assistant coach at

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, James Madison University, and

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Career

Edmonds was born in

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. She attended college at Appalachian State, where she played on the basketball team for four years, serving as co-captain for two.

Appalachian State statistics

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Coaching

She began her coaching career in 2005 by coaching high school basketball, and in 2007 she took an assistant coaching position at her alma mater. In 2009, she became an assistant coach for the

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team; during her four years at James Madison, the team made the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament twice and the

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twice. North Carolina State hired Edmonds as an assistant coach in 2013; she was promoted to recruiting coordinator in 2018 and associate head coach in 2019. During her time at NC State, the school reached the NCAA tournament five times and the Sweet Sixteen three times. Rice hired Edmonds in 2021 to coach their women's basketball team. Her overall record at Rice is 37–22 over two seasons. She led Rice to an appearance in the

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in the 2022–23 season.

Personal life

Edmonds has a husband, Ulrick Edmonds, and three daughters. During NC State's appearance in the

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, NCAA restrictions on team travel parties during the

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pandemic required her to travel without two of her daughters. She documented her experience to ''

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'', which criticized the NCAA's treatment of her and other mothers coaching in the tournament.

Head coaching record

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Edmonds, Lindsay Living people American women's basketball coaches Basketball coaches from North Carolina Basketball players from North Carolina Sportspeople from Winston-Salem, North Carolina Rice Owls women's basketball coaches Appalachian State Mountaineers women's basketball players Year of birth missing (living people) Appalachian State Mountaineers women's basketball coaches James Madison Dukes women's basketball coaches NC State Wolfpack women's basketball coaches