Kevin Donahue begins his second season as an assistant coach with the Nichols College men’s basketball program in 2022-23.
The Bison – who captured their fifth-straight Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) championship in 2021-22 – won three major awards campaign as Jakigh Dottin took home CCC Player of the Year while Jaekwon Spencer was tabbed CCC Defensive Player of the Year and Tahmeen Dupree garnered CCC Rookie of the Year honors. Nichols closed the season No. 3 in the NCAA Division III Region II rankings and was No. 6 in scoring offense (88.2 ppg), No. 9 in personal fouls/game (13.1), and No. 43 in assist/turnover ratio (1.28).
Donahue comes to Nichols after serving as an assistant coach at Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts (2019-20), where he served as an assistant coach on the varsity team while running the junior varsity program. He helped create practice plans for the varsity program while coordinating player development and film breakdown and analysis.
Prior to his arrival at Northfield, Donahue – a four-year member of the Assumption College men’s basketball team (2009-12) – played professionally in both Spain (2017) and Germany (2017-19). He was the starting guard for CD Aquimisa Carbajosa and helped them capture the 2017 Federacion de Baloncesto de Castille y Leon (FBCYL) Primera regular season title and National Final Four Championship. Donahue was later the starting guard for Tus 59 HammStars of the Second Regional League Gruppe 2 Nordrhein-Westfalen Division.
Donahue received his B.A. in History from Assumption in 2012 and his master’s degree in Business Administration in 2015. He was a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team selection and a 2011-12 Northeast-10 Second Team pick.
