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Colsten Thompson
- Title:
- Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator
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Colsten Thompson is in his first season as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Indiana in 2025-26.
Thompson joins the program after a three-year stint at Alabama where he most recently served as the Assistant Coach/Director of Player Development and Recruiting Operations. He has served in a recruiting operations role in his three years in Tuscaloosa, as the program went to three NCAA Tournaments and three 20-win seasons.
He helped Alabama to sign a pair of Top 15 recruiting classes in 2023 and 2025, which both ranked 12th nationally by ESPNw. A recent WBCA 30-under-30 honoree, Thompson assisted four Crimson Tide athletes to WNBA Draft picks – including three in the 2025 draft (Sarah Ashlee Barker, Zaay Green and Aalyiah Nye).
The Hartselle, Ala. native spent time at Lipscomb (assistant coach), Louisiana Tech (graduate assistant) and Alabama-Huntsville (student assistant), where he completed his bachelor’s degree in sports fitness and management in 2020. Thompson also completed a master’s degree at Louisiana Tech in business administration in 2021. He was a basketball student-athlete at Martin Methodist College and Wallace State Community College from 2014-16.
He is married to his wife, Mackenzie, and they have a daughter, Tanner.
Thompson joins the program after a three-year stint at Alabama where he most recently served as the Assistant Coach/Director of Player Development and Recruiting Operations. He has served in a recruiting operations role in his three years in Tuscaloosa, as the program went to three NCAA Tournaments and three 20-win seasons.
He helped Alabama to sign a pair of Top 15 recruiting classes in 2023 and 2025, which both ranked 12th nationally by ESPNw. A recent WBCA 30-under-30 honoree, Thompson assisted four Crimson Tide athletes to WNBA Draft picks – including three in the 2025 draft (Sarah Ashlee Barker, Zaay Green and Aalyiah Nye).
The Hartselle, Ala. native spent time at Lipscomb (assistant coach), Louisiana Tech (graduate assistant) and Alabama-Huntsville (student assistant), where he completed his bachelor’s degree in sports fitness and management in 2020. Thompson also completed a master’s degree at Louisiana Tech in business administration in 2021. He was a basketball student-athlete at Martin Methodist College and Wallace State Community College from 2014-16.
He is married to his wife, Mackenzie, and they have a daughter, Tanner.
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