Joslyn Tinkle was hired in May 2024 after spending the last three seasons at the University of Montana as an Assistant Coach and as a Recruiting Coordinator for the Lady Griz.
During the 2023-24 season, she helped Montana post a 23-10 record, which included a WNIT berth and the program's first postseason win since 2014. In Tinkle's first year in Missoula, she helped the Lady Griz have a seven-win improvement during the 2021-22 season.
Tinkle began her coaching career in Missoula after spending five years in the private sector. She is part of the Pacific Northwest's foremost basketball families: Her father, Wayne, is the current men's basketball coach at Oregon State after leading the Griz for four seasons, and her mother Lisa McLeod is a Grizzly Sports Hall of Fame inductee. Her younger siblings Elle and Tres starred at Gonzaga and Oregon State, respectively.
As a player, Tinkle was a four-year varsity letter-winner under legendary head coach Tara VanDerveer at Stanford, where she was part of three Final Four teams and four Pac-10/12 Conference champions. A McDonald's All-American from Big Sky High School, located in Missoula, Mont., Tinkle was selected to the United States U18 team that won gold in 2008. She graduated from Stanford in 2013 with a double major in sociology and communications, then went on to play for the WNBA's Seattle Storm and eventually in three different overseas leagues.
