Joel Tinney

Biography

Joel Tinney joined the Drexel staff in the fall of 2024. Tinney, the team's offensive coordinator, came to Drexel after serving as an assistant at Michigan the previous season. The Wolverines won the Big 10 championship and advanced to the NCAA Tournament. Tinney worked mainly with the Wolverines' offense and goalkeepers and serves in a similar role with the Dragons. Michigan finished second in the Big 10 in scoring offense. Before arriving in Ann Arbor, Tinney spent five seasons as an assistant coach at perennial-power Calvert Hall in Towson, Md. He helped lead Calvert Hall to the 2019 Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) and national championship. Tinney, who played his college lacrosse at Johns Hopkins, played professionally in the National Lacrosse League, Major League Lacrosse and the Premier Lacrosse League from 2018-2021. During his playing days at Hopkins, Tinney scored 68 career goals and had 119 career points. He was a two-time First Team All-American, a two-time All-Big Ten selection and was the league's Freshman of the Year in 2014. A team captain, Tinney was part of two Big Ten championship teams. Tinney graduated from Hopkins in 2018 with a political science and government degree. A native of Cambridge, Ontario, Tinney played high school lacrosse at national-power Culver Military Academy in Indiana. He graduated in 2013 and was the second-ranked high school player in the nation as a senior.