Benedictine University Mesa

Christien Crynes joined the Redhawks staff for the 18-19 season as an assistant coach. Coach Crynes primary responsibilities will be recruitment, opponent scouting and working with the Redhawk post players.   Prior to joining Benedictine Mesa, Crynes worked as an assistant coach at Oklahoma Christian University from 2016-2018. Before joining the OCU program he coached for BTR Basketball, an AAU program in Oklahoma City, serving as the head coach for the boys 15-under team and assistant for the boys 17-under team.

Crynes graduated from Arizona State in 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in Marketing. While at ASU, he was an ASU Pat Tillman Leadership Through Action Scholar, which enabled him to establish an outreach program in Tulsa called Assault Athletics. The program prepared Native American and inner-city student-athletes for college through academic and professional development workshops, one-on-one mentoring and basketball training. Thirty student-athletes received scholarship offers as a result of Assault Athletics.

After college, Crynes worked with Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State, to increase National Scholar, first-generation, and minority enrollment. He then left to work on his master’s degree in business administration from the University of Oklahoma, from which he graduated in December 2015.