Daron Park - Women's Basketball Coach - Middle Tennessee State University Athletics

Daron Park

Title:
Statistical Analyst
Email:
daron.park@mtsu.edu
Phone:
898-5207

UPDATED: 5/9/19

Daron Park enters his second season with Middle Tennessee women’s basketball team as the coordinator of operations and player development on Head Coach Rick Insell's staff.

Park has 14 years coaching experience at the Division I level, appearing in seven NCAA Tournaments, taking three trips to the Elite Eight and securing one WNIT bid during that span.

His duties at Middle Tennessee include, but are not limited to, assisting with administrative aspects of the program. Essential tasks include: oversight of day-to-day correspondence with university officials, oversight of daily on-going recruiting activities, community outreach and community service projects and NCAA Life Skill programs developed for women's basketball student-athletes.

Prior to Middle Tennessee, Park served four years as head coach at Cal State Fullerton. Before his head coaching tenure at Cal State Fullerton, Park spent one year as an assistant at California, and under the tutelage of Lindsey Gottlieb, helped guide the Golden Bears to a 25-10 overall mark and their first NCAA Tournament appearance since the 2008-09 season.

Prior to Cal, Park earned his first associate coaching job in 2009, when he served as an associate head coach at LA Tech for two seasons (2009-11) and helped lead the Lady Techsters to two 20-win seasons and two straight NCAA Tournament berths. The Lady Techsters also captured the school’s first WAC Tournament championship since the 2005-06 campaign during Park’s tenure.

During his time at LA Tech, Park worked closely with Lady Techster post players Shanavia Dowdell (Second Round, 2010, Washington Mystics) and Adrienne Johnson (Third round, 2011, Connecticut Sun) who both went on to play professionally in the WNBA.

Park went to LA Tech after spending two years as an assistant coach on Brenda Frese’s staff at Maryland where he was an integral part of the Terrapins success, helping them to a pair of Elite Eight appearances while claiming an ACC regular season and tournament title. During his first season with Maryland, Park served as the interim head coach while Frese was on leave. Park led the Terrapins to an 8-1 mark with the lone loss coming in double overtime to No. 3 North Carolina.

He was instrumental in helping Maryland earn a pair of top-five national rankings, a preseason WNIT championship, two No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament and 64 victories, including a 24-4 mark in ACC games.

Before arriving at Maryland, Park got his Division I start as an assistant at Utah from 2004-07, where he helped guide the Utes to a 72-29 overall record while including a Mountain West championship, two NCAA Tournament appearances and a trip to the Elite Eight in his three years as an assistant.

Park launched his collegiate coaching career in 1999 as an assistant at NAIA Westminster College. He then went on to serve as the head coach for the Griffins from 2000-04.

Originally from Great Falls, Montana, Park received his bachelor’s degree in health enhancement from Montana State in 1994.