Women's Basketball
Sinnott, Erin
Erin Sinnott
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- erinsinn@buffalo.edu
- Phone:
- 716-645-3849
Erin Sinnott enters her second season as assistant coach and third overall on the Buffalo women's basketball staff in 2024-25.
In her first season as assistant coach, the Bulls found tremendous success as they won 19 games, earned a trip to the MAC Championship game and an appearance in the postseason WNIT. The Bulls won 10 games in league play, a seven-win improvement from a season ago which is the highest improvement of any MAC school. Individually, Chellia Watson earned Honorable Mention All-America and First Team All-MAC honors and Kirsten Lewis-Williams was named MAC Freshman of the Year and earned All-MAC Honorable Mention recognition.
For the 2022-23 season, Sinnott served as the Director of Basketball and Recruiting Operations in which she assisted in various administrative areas including travel coordination, community outreach projects, official visit coordination, and other day-to-day business operations of the program.
Sinnott came to Buffalo after serving as an intern under head coach Lindsey Whalen at the University of Minnesota during the 2021-22 season. Prior to Minnesota, Sinnott was the Director of Operations at Rising Coaches, which helps to facilitate an inclusive community for basketball coaches at all levels. Before Rising Coaches, she was a graduate assistant the marketing department at Southern Illinois University, where she earned a master's degree in sports administration.
She played two seasons (2017-19) at Daemen University, where she graduated with a degree in business administration. She started the first eight games as a junior before missing the rest of the season with an injury but bounced back and appeared in 21 games as a senior. Prior to Daemen, Sinnott played at Evansville where she scored 73 points in 41 games over two seasons.
In her first season as assistant coach, the Bulls found tremendous success as they won 19 games, earned a trip to the MAC Championship game and an appearance in the postseason WNIT. The Bulls won 10 games in league play, a seven-win improvement from a season ago which is the highest improvement of any MAC school. Individually, Chellia Watson earned Honorable Mention All-America and First Team All-MAC honors and Kirsten Lewis-Williams was named MAC Freshman of the Year and earned All-MAC Honorable Mention recognition.
For the 2022-23 season, Sinnott served as the Director of Basketball and Recruiting Operations in which she assisted in various administrative areas including travel coordination, community outreach projects, official visit coordination, and other day-to-day business operations of the program.
Sinnott came to Buffalo after serving as an intern under head coach Lindsey Whalen at the University of Minnesota during the 2021-22 season. Prior to Minnesota, Sinnott was the Director of Operations at Rising Coaches, which helps to facilitate an inclusive community for basketball coaches at all levels. Before Rising Coaches, she was a graduate assistant the marketing department at Southern Illinois University, where she earned a master's degree in sports administration.
She played two seasons (2017-19) at Daemen University, where she graduated with a degree in business administration. She started the first eight games as a junior before missing the rest of the season with an injury but bounced back and appeared in 21 games as a senior. Prior to Daemen, Sinnott played at Evansville where she scored 73 points in 41 games over two seasons.
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