Lynn Coutts arrived at the University of Denver in September 2019 and currently serves as the Deputy Director of Athletics for Student Athlete Excellence. She works closely with student athlete support services which includes academics, compliance, sports medicine, sports performance and the equipment room. Coutts serves on the Senior Leadership Team and is the department liaison to Equal Opportunity and Title IX as well as Student Rights and Responsibilities.
Coutts is also the sport administrator for Hockey, Women’s Lacrosse, Women’s Basketball and Volleyball.
Coutts represents the division on several campus wide groups including, DEI, Healthy Masculinities, Culture of Respect, JED Foundation for suicide prevention, and the Women’s Leadership Council.
Before joining Denver, Coutts was the Senior Associate AD and Senior Woman Administrator at the University of Maine from 2015-2019. There, Coutts was the sport administrator for track and field, women’s hockey, field hockey, and swimming. She oversaw academics, compliance, sports performance, athletic training, equipment room, Title IX, and student code of conduct.
Prior to making the jump to administration, Coutts was the Head Softball Coach at UMaine from 2011-2015 garnering Coach of the Year honors in her final year. She coached many scholar athletes as well as all-conference players. Handing the reins to her husband, Mike, and stepping into an assistant role, they won the America East Conference Championship in 2016, a berth into the NCAA Regional Tournament, and a trip to Georgia.
Before returning to her Alma Mater to coach, Coutts and her husband Mike owned and operated Frozen Ropes Baseball and Softball Training Centers in Franklin, Mass., Cape Cod, Mass. and Portland, Maine.
A former two-time captain and Northeast All American softball pitcher, Coutts was a four-year starter for the University of Maine Softball team. Following her career, she was inducted into three Sports Hall of Fames.
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