Jacinda Dunbar

Biography

Joining head coach Jessica Mannetti’s staff prior to the 2024-25 campaign, Dunbar enters her third season on the sidelines as an assistant coach for the Sacred Heart University women’s basketball team in 2026-27. Dunbar comes to SHU after spending the last three seasons at Lafayette College as the team's Assistant Coach: Recruiting Coordinator. In her time with the Leopards, she helped guide two players to All-Patriot League recognition and one to All-Defensive Team honors. Lafayette made the Patriot League Tournament all three seasons of her tenure. Before Lafayette, Dunbar had professional stops at Monmouth, Saint Francis, Yale, Wesleyan and Southern Connecticut State. At Yale, she was a part of the 2017-18 team that won a program-record 19 games and won the Women's Basketball Invitational tournament, becoming the first Ivy League team to win a national postseason tournament. Dunbar also served as the Director of Operations for the Northwestern women's basketball program, which appeared in the 2019 Women's National Invitational Tournament championship game. Dunbar graduated from Quinnipiac with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology in 2012 and received her Master's in Liberal Studies, with a focus in Social Sciences, from Wesleyan in 2015.