Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference

Lindsey Dietz was a dominant force for the UMD women’s basketball team from 2002 to 2006. She is one of just two, multi-time Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) All-Americans UMD has ever produced and the first Bulldog player to lead the team in scoring four straight seasons.  She ranks third on the UMD all-time scoring chart with 2,114 points in 104 games (20.3 ppg) and still owns seven school records, including field goal accuracy in a single season (.664 set in 2005-06), free throws made (184) and attempted (238) in a season, consecutive made FTs (43) and most free throws made (578) and attempted (721) in a career.

The Elk River, Minnesota native earned a spot on the NCAA Division II Kodak/WBCA All-America First Team for the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons and landed three consecutive Daktronics All-American citations. She was also a four-time member of the North Central All-Region team. She was voted the NSIC Freshman of the Year in 2002-03, the Player of the Year in 2003-04 and was NSIC Tournament Most Valuable Player in 2003. Dietz became UMD’s first two-time recipient of the prestigious ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American Player of the Year Award. She received both the UMD Outstanding Senior Female Athlete Award and the Top Female Scholar-Athlete Award and was one of the 30 finalists for the NCAA Woman of the Year in 2006. Following her playing career she served as a UMD student assistant women’s basketball coach for two years. 
Dietz, who possesses both a B.S. and master’s degree in mathematics and a Ph.D. in statistics, works at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis as a Data Science Manager. In 2022, she was named a Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal 40 under 40 honoree. Dietz and her partner Todd Watts reside in Minneapolis, Minnesota.