Eric Thibault

The 2025 season will be Thibault’s first with the Lynx as the Associate Head Coach after serving as head coach for the Washington Mystics for the 2023 and 2024 seasons. Previously, he spent 10 seasons as an assistant for the Mystics and was elevated to associate head coach in 2019. During his tenure in Washington, Thibault helped the Mystics to nine postseason appearances and two consecutive WNBA Finals appearances in 2018 and 2019, winning a WNBA Championship in 2019. With the Mystics, Thibault helped direct player development, with an emphasis on coaching the guards, including Natasha Cloud who was a 2022 All-Defensive Team selection, as well as All-Star and Olympian, Ariel Atkins.

Thibault graduated in 2010 from the University of Missouri where he served as a graduate assistant coach for the women’s basketball program. He continued as a graduate assistant coach for St. John’s women’s basketball program for two years while earning his master’s degree in sports management. During that time, St. John’s advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament in 2011 and to the Sweet Sixteen in 2012. He was then named an Assistant Coach at Virginia Commonwealth University for the 2012-13 season before joining the Mystics staff in the spring of 2013. Thibault spent five years with the Connecticut Sun where he helped the team to playoff appearances in 2008, 2011, and 2012.