Dan Engelstad
Dan Engelstad (born October 11, 1984)
Current position: Assistant men’s basketball coach
Current team: Syracuse Orange (Head coach: Adrian Autry)
Current conference: Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC)
Teams coached: Southern Vermont Mountaineers, Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers
Southern Vermont record: 104-34 (.754)
Mount St. Mary’s record: 72-109 (.398)
Overall record^: 176-143 (.552)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 1 (2021)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- MAAC Regular Season Champion: 0
- NECC (Div III) Regular Season Champion: 4 (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
- MAAC Tournament Champion: 0
- NEC Tournament Champion: 1 (2021)
- NECC (Div III) Tournament Champion: 2 (2016, 2018)
- NCAA Division III Tournament Appearances: 2 (2016, 2018)
Awards:
- NECC (Div III) Coach of the Year: 3 (2015, 2016, 2018)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
2024-present | Syracuse (asst) |
2018-2024 | Mount St. Mary’s |
2013-2018 | Southern Vermont |
2010-2013 | Holy Cross (asst) |
2007-2010 | Mount St. Mary’s (asst) |
Dan Engelstad Facts
- Daniel Engelstad
- Born October 11, 1984
- Hometown: Bethesda, Maryland
- Alma Mater: St. Mary’s College of Maryland (BS, 2007)
- Played four seasons at Division III St. Mary’s (MD), graduating as the school’s all-time assist leader
- Started coaching in 2007, spending three years as an assistant under Milan Brown at Mount St. Mary’s
- Followed Brown to Holy Cross in 2010, spending another three seasons as one of his assistants there
- Hired as the head coach at Division III Southern Vermont, taking over a program that had gone just 1-24 the year before
- Went 104-34 in five seasons at SVC, quickly turning the program into a perennial conference winner (won four-straight regular season titles, 2015-18)
- Twice reached the NCAA Division III Tournament by way of NECC Conference Tournament titles
- Returned to The Mount in May 2018 when he was hired to be the new head coach of the Mountaineers
- In 2021, Engelstad led the Mountaineers back to the NCAA Tournament by way of a NEC Tournament title
- Had a 72-109 overall record in six seasons, and guided the program through a move from the NEC to the MAAC in 2022
- Left MSM in April 2024 to become an assistant under head coach Adrian Autry at Syracuse
Dan Engelstad Coaching Tree
- coming soon
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at both the NCAA Division I and Division III levels