Cat Lind
Cat Lind
Title: Interim Head Coach/Director of Volleyball
Phone: 865-471-4216
Email: clind@cn.edu
Hometown: Colorado Springs, Colo.
Previous College: Warner (Fla.), '18
Year: Third Year

Lind enters her third season as the head coach of the Carson-Newman beach volleyball program. 

in 2022, Lind led the Eagles to a 15-14 season including a 6-0 record at home. Her 15 wins set a new team record for most wins in a season. She led the team to their first win at the AVCA championships since the 2019 season. Her five sweeps during the 2022 season are the most since the program's second season in 2016. 

"I am humbled and grateful to be given the opportunity to work with both programs and become part of such a wonderful family," Lind said. "I am looking forward to taking on the beach program and using my opportunities there to grow and mentor the young women in their spiritual, academic and athletic growth. God has truly blessed me and I am thankful to Coach Tiernan and the administration for bringing me to C-N. I am excited to see all that God has in store."

The Colorado Springs, Colo. native spent the 2019 season as an assistant coach for Sioux Falls helping guide the club to a 17-11 overall record in one of the most difficult conferences in the country, the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. She provided guidance to a pair of second-team all-conference selections in Abby Feyereisen and KaSandra Springer for the Cougars.

On top of recruiting, training, organizing travel and team equipment, Lind has experience in club and beach volleyball. In 2019, she was the head coach for the Sanford Pentagon 15 Regional Team and coached the 17 National Team for the organization.

After playing both indoors and on the sand, the former libero spent the spring of 2018 as an intern for the Warner Beach Program.

As an athlete, Lind was a co-captain for Warner's (Fla.) Volleyball Team in 2016 as a defensive specialist for the team. After arriving at Warner, she accumulated 352 digs, 39 assists, 34 service aces in 174 games played during two seasons. Lind was named to the Sun Conference's All-Academic Team in 2016 and 2017.

She graduated Magna Cum Laude in sports management in 2018 from Warner, was a player on Warner's Small College Sand Volleyball Dual National Championship team. Also in 2017-18, she was an intern coordinator for the B.A.L.L. Sport Ministry. She also served as a FCA Organizational Ministry Leader at Warner from 2015-18.

Lind became the seventh different coach in the history of the beach program and inherits a club that was off to a 6-1 start to the 2020 while joining an indoor unit that won the 2019 NCAA Southeast Region Championship, the program's second trip to the National Quarterfinals.