Kimani Young

Biography

Kimani Young joined Dan Hurley’s initial staff at UConn ahead of the 2018-19 season, spent two seasons as an assistant coach and has been the Associate Head Coach of the Huskies since 2020. He completed his eighth season at Connecticut in 2025-26. Young was on staff for the 2023 and 2024 back-to-back champions and has helped guide the Huskies to six-straight NCAA Tournaments – a program record. Both title teams featured First Team All-Conference guards recruited and mentored by Young and boasted top-10 defensive units under his visage. UConn's 2026 Final Four squad was also a top-10 defensive unit. The 2023-24 squad set a program-record with 37 wins and was the dual BIG EAST champions before concluding the most dominant two-year stretch in modern NCAA history. Young has 14 years of collegiate coaching experience, spending a season at FIU and five years at Minnesota under Richard Pitino before joining the UConn staff. His BIG EAST roots go back even further, spending the 2008-09 season as the video coordinator at St. John’s. He began his coaching career as the athletic director at New Heights Youth in New York City – a non-profit sports-based youth development and education organization - from 2006-08 and 2009-12. Young also worked as the program director for the Aim High Foundation in Brooklyn, a coach for Big Apple Basketball, Inc., and as a rec assistant for Kaplan House, a facility for young men in foster homes. Young was the center director for two centers for the Police