Joel Tinney

Joel Tinney is a Canadian lacrosse player and coach, born on June 12, 1995 in Cambridge, Ontario, who is now an assistant coach at the University of Michigan. He won a silver medal with Canada's under-19 team at the 2012 world championship in Turku, Finland, and was ranked the second best freshman in the United States by Inside Lacrosse in 2014 while at Culver Academy. He played midfield for the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays, earned first team All-American honours twice and was Big Ten Freshman of the Year in 2014, and he captained the team before graduating in 2018 with a degree in political science and government. A hidden ball trick against Navy went viral and appeared on ESPN's SportsCenter Top-10. The Georgia Swarm drafted him 18th overall in the 2018 NLL Entry Draft and he was traded to the New England Black Wolves in 2019. Across his professional career he played in the National Lacrosse League, Major League Lacrosse and the Premier Lacrosse League.