Cretin-Derham Hall announced today that Crystal Flint has been named the varsity girls’ head basketball coach, beginning immediately. Flint brings more than 30 years of playing, coaching, and officiating experience to the program.
“We are very fortunate that Crystal has agreed to lead our girls’ basketball program,” said Phil Archer ’99, CDH Athletic Director. “She is well respected in the basketball community and will create a successful future for Raider basketball.”
The Boston native starred at South Boston High School before accepting a scholarship offer from the University of Minnesota in 1989.
Five years later, she led the Gophers to their first-ever NCAA tournament. In 1995 Flint graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with emphases in sociology, women’s studies, and African American studies.
Upon graduation, she served as an assistant coach at the U of M until 1997 before moving on to a three-year stint as head coach at Division II Concordia University.
Over the years, Flint made a name for herself as one of Minnesota’s top officials in high school girls’ basketball, and serves as an NCAA college basketball official.
“Crystal’s depth of experience at all levels of the game, along with her sociology and mentoring background, is what our girls’ basketball program needs to build upon its previous successes,” said Archer. “She is excited to work with the student-athletes to develop them to their fullest potential.”
Flint was most recently the head girls’ basketball coach at Minneapolis North Community High School where she was unanamously named Minneapolis City Conference Coach of the Year and chosen to be a member of the Miss Basketball Award Committee. She and husband Andre Lanoue '89 have two sons.