About the Coaches
Head
Coach: David Zinn
zinndav@meredith.edu
David Zinn enters his fifth year as head coach of the Meredith College basketball team. During the 2005-2006 season, Zinn led the team to a 13-11 record and the Association of Division III Independents Northeast Regional championship. He also was named as the NCAA Division III Association of Independents Coach of the Year.
Zinn began his coaching career with two years of teaching World History and coaching basketball and track at James Wood High School in Winchester, Va. Zinn then went to the University of Tennessee as a graduate student where he taught undergraduate physical education courses and worked for the Total College Sports Network (TCSN), covering the 1998 National Champion University of Tennessee Lady Volunteer Basketball team.
Coach Zinn then worked for two years at Cumberland College (Ky.) as the Assistant Varsity and Head Junior Varsity Coach on the staff of Melissa Irvin. In those two years, the Lady Indians amassed a record of 48-18, set several school records, and reached the Sweet 16 of the NAIA National Tournament in 2001. In 2001, Coach Zinn took over an NCAA II program at Salem International University (W.Va.) as the head coach, sports information director, and sport management professor. In three seasons, the Tigers set a number of school records and one NCAA II record for 3-point shooting before Zinn came to Meredith.
A veteran of summer basketball camps, Coach Zinn has served on the staff of some of the top camps in the nation including Tennessee, Oklahoma, Duke, North Carolina State, Purdue, Michigan State, Virginia Tech, Princeton, and the Five-Star Basketball Camp for Girls, among others.
A strong proponent of academics, Coach Zinn is a 1995 graduate of West Virginia University, with a degree in Secondary Education. Zinn has also earned two master's degrees: one in Sports Administration from the University of Tennessee and one in Secondary Education from Cumberland College.
In addition to his duties with the basketball team, Coach Zinn teaches undergraduate courses as an Assistant Professor in the Health, Exercise, and Sports Science Department, works as an undergraduate advisor for Meredith students and serves as the Strength and Conditioning Coach for Meredith athletes. He is also an active member of the WBCA.
Assistant
Coach: Robert Luckadoo
luckadoo@meredith.edu
Robert Luckadoo enters his first season as assistant coach of the Meredith College basketball team. Luckadoo joins Coach David Zinn's staff and also serves as Meredith's head softball coach.
Coach Luckadoo has been involved in coaching women's athletics for most of the past 18 years, and has experience in coaching women's basketball at the middle school and high school levels of play. Coach Luckadoo has served as a Head women's JV coach and assistant varsity women's coach at Northwestern 4A women's basketball powerhouse Freedom High School in Morganton, NC, and most recently, served as an assistant women's basketball coach to Head Coach Mike Silver, and perennial NC State women's basketball power, McDowell High School in Marion, NC, where he helped both teams make runs through the NCHSAA state playoffs.
Coach Luckadoo is a native of Rutherford County, N.C., a 1983 graduate of East Rutherford High School (Forest City, N.C.) and a 1988 graduate of NC State University. Luckadoo, a strong proponent of higher education, will complete a master's degree in sports management in June 2008 from the United States Sports Academy. He is a North Carolina Certified Science teacher and has worked as an instructor of Physics and Physical Science in the McDowell and Burke County in North Carolina. Luckadoo and his wife, Paula, have two daughters, Lindsay, age 18, and Sara, age 16.
A
ssistant Coach: Kevin Walker
Coach Kevin Walker enters his first year as assistant coach with the Basketball Team at Meredith College.
Walker has many years of playing and coaching experience at various levels. His last coaching position was as an Assistant Coach at Neuse Baptist Church. He has coached in various recreational leagues while attending East Carolina University from 1989-1992 including at the AAU level. His playing experience stems from his career at Matoaca (Va.) High School. He also participated in Coach Morgan Wooten’s basketball camp in Takoma Park, Md.
Walker is the supervisor of the copy center at Meredith College.
Student Assistants: Danielle Stott, Carol Roberson
