Head Coach - Michael Grinder
The 2025-26 season will be Head Coach Michael Grinder's seventh season at Geneva. His teams have seen improvement during his time on College Hill, as evidenced by the team's highest-ever finish in the PAC standings during the 2023-24 season when the Golden Tornadoes finished 11-9 in PAC play. That year's team advanced all the way to the PAC Championship game for the first time in school history. Playing an uptempo style of pace, his team broke the school record with 21 made three-pointers against Thiel in 2021, and they set the program record for most points in a game with 114 against Thiel in 2023.
Grinder came to Geneva from the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville, where he was the Head Men's and Women's basketball coach. Grinder employed a fast-paced offense with both programs, and his teams set multiple school scoring records during his coaching tenure at Pitt-Titusville.
Grinder's time as the head women's coach at Pitt-Titusville encompassed four seasons. During that time, he coached four first-team All-Western Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference (WPCC) players as well as fourteen All-Academic WPCC players. His women's team in 2017-18 finished second overall in the WPCC, the school's highest finish since 2006. In his last season, his team improved upon that finish and won the WPCC regular season championship.
Grinder also had success coaching the men's team. In his first season as men's coach in 2017-18, his team matched the win total from the previous three seasons combined, finishing fourth in the WPCC, the highest finish in school history.
Besides coaching, Grinder was involved in the Coalition of Christian Outreach at Pitt-Titusville, speaking twice per semester. He also oversaw intramurals at the school and was active in fundraising.
Prior to Pitt-Titusville, Grinder spent time coaching internationally, establishing and developing U18 and U20 youth programs in Moldova and Palestine. Grinder also played overseas professionally in Palestine, Guatemala and Macedonia for five seasons after graduating from Simpson University in 2004.
Grinder and his wife Shannon have two sons, Josiah and Evan.
