Nancy Winstel

Nancy Winstel (born Newport, Kentucky) is the head women’s basketball coach at Northern Kentucky University. She ranks 3rd in wins among NCAA Division II women’s basketball coaches and 9th in winning percentage with an overall record of 636-238 (73%). Having finished her 27th season as coach of the Norse, Winstel has compiled a record at NKU of 597-197 (75%). In 2000, NKU won the NCAA Women's Division II Basketball Championship, the first national championship in the history of the school and the first national championship by a Kentucky college women’s team in any sport at any level. NKU won their second NCAA Women's Division II Basketball Championship in 2008, becoming one of only five schools to win more than one. The 2006-2007 team and Winstel are the subject of Thirteen Women Strong: The Making of a Team, written by NKU English professor Robert K. Wallace.^[1]

A graduate of St. Thomas High School in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, Winstel received her BA in Physical Education and History from Northern Kentucky University in 1977. She was a walk in on NKU's first women's basketball team. She then after received her Master’s degree in Physical Education with an emphasis on coaching from Indiana University in 1978, then soon became head women’s basketball coach at Midway College in Kentucky for three years. In 1981, she returned to NKU as assistant coach for the women’s basketball and volleyball teams and head coach of the women’s softball team for two years before becoming head women’s basketball coach in 1983.

Coaching Milestones

In 2009, Winstel achieved her 600th overall victory as a college coach.

Tournament Record

Nancy Winstel’s teams have won two national championships (2000, 2008), finished as national runner-up once (2003), have appeared in five final fours (1987, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2008), and have qualified for the NCAA tournament 19 times. Her teams have won or shared the Great Lakes Valley Conference championship ten times, most recently in 2009.

Honors

Winstel was named WBCA Division II National Coach of the Year honor in 1999-2000. She has been named Great Lakes Valley Conference Coach of the Year six times. In December 2009, she was named National Coach of the Decade by the Women's Division II Bulletin, which also named the NKU women's basketball team the program of the decade.^[2] Winstel still ranks 3rd on the school's all time list for rebounding averageing 8.3 per game. During the 1974-1977 seasons she also averaged 10.3 points per game in her first season

See also

• List of college women's basketball coaches with 600 wins

External links

• Northern Kentucky University Women’s Basketball team web site

References

1. ^ http://www.kentuckypress.com/viewbook.cfm?Category_ID=1&Group=33&ID=1476
2. ^ http://www.smallcollegehoops.com

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