Nancy Winstel

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Nancy H. Winstel (born December 10, 1953) is an American retired head women's basketball coach who coached at Northern Kentucky University from 1983 through 2012.

At the time of her retirement, Winstel ranked 3rd in wins and 9th in winning percentage among active

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.

Born in

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.

Winstel announced her retirement on March 28, 2012, after 29 seasons at NKU.[2]

Coaching milestones

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

Tournament record

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 20 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,[3] which also named the NKU women's basketball team the program of the decade.[4][5]

Winstel still ranks 3rd on the school's all-time list for rebounding averaging 8.3 per game. During the 1974–1977 seasons she also averaged 10.3 points per game in her first season.

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Notes

  1. ^ NCAA Division II Coaching Records. Available at http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/w_basketball_RB/2010/coaches.pdf
  2. ^ Wilder, John Minor and Stephen. "Winstel announces retirement". The Northerner. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
  3. ^ "NKU's Winstel named national coach of the decade by Women's Division II Bulletin". Northern Kentucky University Athletics. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
  4. ^ "Home". smallcollegehoops.com.
  5. ^ "Nancy Winstel (2013) - David Lee Holt NKU Hall of Fame". Northern Kentucky University Athletics. Retrieved 2021-06-12.