Kevin Downey, former basketball standout at Canisius College, returned to the Golden Flyers as an assistant coach for the 2017-18 season. He has had two previous assistant coaching stints with the Golden Flyers and spent three seasons as head boys' basketball coach at Victor High School.
Downey completed his college career in '05-06 as Canisius' seventh all-time scorer with 1,583 points and was inducted into the athletic Hall of Fame there in 2016. He started every game of his four-year career (116 overall) and ranks third all-time in three-point field goals made with 185. He earned an undergraduate degree in Biology and a Master's degree in Business Administration.
A native of Livonia, N.Y., Downey was a scholastic standout at Livonia High, where he played for his father, the late Tom Downey. As a senior at Livonia in 2000-01, Downey was the all-Greater Rochester co-Player of the Year in leading the Bulldogs to the Section Five Class B title and a 23-1 overall record.
Downey's mother, Linda Downey, was Nazareth's women's volleyball coach for four seasons (1999-2002) and held the same position at the University of Rochester for five more seasons after that. His sister, Christa, was a three-time first-team All-American in volleyball for Nazareth from 2000 through 2002. Both Linda and Christa are members of Nazareth's Sports Hall of Fame.
Downey works as a sales representative for G&G Fitness.
