Victoria Wancel joined the coaching staff at NU prior to the 2006-07 season, after spending two years as an assistant at New Haven under Daynia La-Force. Her duties include recruiting, scheduling, team academic monitoring, development of perimeter players, game planning, scouting and on-court assistance.
In two seasons at New Haven, Wancel helped coach a team that won 42 games and a conference championship. Under the guidance of La-Force and Wancel, the Chargers won the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference championship and earned a berth in the NCAA Division II Tournament.
Prior to beginning her collegiate coaching career, Wancel enjoyed a standout collegiate basketball career at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. She was named to the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference All-Academic Team ea
ch season and earned the team’s Coaches Award in 2003 and 2004.
As a senior, Wancel helped the Red Foxes to their first-ever MAAC regular-season and tournament championships and a trip to the NCAA Tournament. She graduated from Marist in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in Communications.
Wancel played her high school basketball at St. Francis Prep High School in Fresh Meadows, N.Y., where she received Honorable Mention All-American honors from USA Today and Honorable Mention All-City accolades from New York Newsday. She was ranked the ninth-best basketball player in New York City by the New York Daily News.
Wancel resides in Brookline.
