Kristen Fink

Kristen Fink

The 2011-12 season is the fourth for Kristen Fink on the coaching staff at her alma mater. She will work primarily with the post players, as she did her first two seasons on staff. Last season she directed the team’s guards. Fink will also continue to be involved with the staff’s recruiting efforts and be in charge of alumni relations.

Lake Forest is 40-30 overall and 31-19 in Midwest Conference play in Fink’s first three years as an assistant coach.

From the spring of 2005 to the summer of 2009, Fink was the head or assistant coach of numerous youth teams in and around the Lake Forest area. She worked with travel teams consisting of players as young as sixth graders or as old as high school juniors as a coach with Full Package Athletics since 2005. Fink also spent two seasons as an assistant at Lake Forest Academy.

Fink was a four-year letter winner in basketball and soccer while a student at Lake Forest College. She earned the Nicholas J. Wasylik Award, which is presented to the senior athlete who best emulates the positive, outgoing attitude as well as the drive and determination of the College’s former Athletic Director (1959-73). She helped the 2001-02 Forester basketball team capture a Midwest Conference championship and led the 2004-05 squad in blocked shots. The soccer team claimed a pair of league titles during her career and she finished with the 15th-highest point total in program history.

In addition to coaching, Fink has also been an elementary teacher since August of 2005 and is currently teaching second grade at the School of St. Mary in Lake Forest.