Meet the
ODAF Team!

Kieran Donohue spent 11 seasons as a men’s basketball assistant coach at ODU, serving as the Special Assistant to the Head Coach for the Monarch basketball squad from 2014 – 2024.  Donohue also served as the interim head coach for the team following Jeff Jones’ medical leave in the 2023-24 season.
 
During his time at ODU, Donohue helped guide the Monarchs to the 2019 NCAA Tournament, the 2019 Conference USA Regular Season and Tournament Championships, the 2016 post-season Vegas 16 Championship, the 2015 post-season NIT semifinals and a first ever Top 25 ranking in 2015.
 

Prior to coming to ODU, Donohue spent 13 seasons at American University as the men’s basketball Associate Head Coach in 2012 and 2013 and an Assistant Coach from 2001-2011.  Before his tenure at American U., Donohue spent two seasons on the men’s basketball coaching staff at Boston University (1999-2000) and one season on the men’s basketball coaching staff at the University of Virginia (1998).  In total, Donohue spent 27 years as a Division I men’s basketball coach.
 
Donohue earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Virginia in 1997.  While a student at UVA, Donohue worked with the men’s basketball team as a student manager.  Donohue, a Bronxville, New York native, attended Regis High School in New York City, where he played point guard on the 1993 championship team and 1992 runners-up for the New York State Class C title.
 
Donohue and his wife, Erika, an American alumnae and former lacrosse player for the Eagles, have two daughters, Molly and Nora.