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Don Friday Jr.

Don Friday Jr. joined the Spartan men's basketball coaching staff as the program’s full-time top assistant coach for the start of the 2025-26 season.

Friday came to York after serving as an assistant coach on the Penn State Harrisburg staff and is looking forward to the opportunity to take the next step in his young career with the Green and White.

After a four-year playing career and graduating from Penn State Harrisburg in 2023, Friday spent two seasons as an assistant on the Lions’ coaching staff. In his first season on staff, the Lions won a program-record 25 games, captured the United East Championship and made their third NCAA Tournament appearance in program history punctuated by a first-round victory over Hood. The next season in 2024-25, Harrisburg compiled 18 victories and reached the semifinal round of the United East Championship Tournament. The Lions were especially strong on the glass, securing an NCAA Statistical Championship in rebounding margin (13.5).

As a collegiate student-athlete at Harrisburg, Friday appeared in nearly 40 games during his career, was a key reserve on two NCAA Tournament teams (2020, 2022) and was also consistently successful in the classroom, as he was named to the NABC Honors Court three times.

Friday comes from a collegiate basketball coaching blood line. His father, Donald Friday Sr., has served as the head coach at Penn State Harrisburg for 13 seasons with prior head coaching stops at Saint Francis University (Pa.) and Lycoming College.