Dan Lumpkin has left Cleveland State Community College after 20 years as its women’s basketball coach.
Lumpkin has joined his wife in accepting employment at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. In his case he’s a special assistant to Liberty women’s basketball coach Carey Green, with whom Lumpkin has a long association.
“I’ll be doing player developoment and video analysis and whatever else he asks me to do,” Lumpkin said about joining a program that has become a regular participant in the NCAA Division I tournament.
Kelly Lumpkin is the new director of Liberty’s athletic training education program, a position she had held since 2005 at Lee University in Cleveland.
Green, like Dan Lumpkin, is a Tennessee native with a coaching history in the state’s community college league. He was the men’s and women’s coach at Jackson State for a while in the 1980s and before that was a women’s assistant at Roane State under Jim Davis, whom he later joined at Clemson. Lumpkin worked camps for Davis in the early years of his own career after graduating from Austin Peay.