Nicole Wentz begins her second season as Cortland's women's volleyball head coach in 2018. In her first season at the helm in 2017 she led the Red Dragons to a SUNYAC tournament appearance.
Wentz previously served as the head women’s volleyball coach at Keystone College for five seasons from 2012-16 as well as two years from 2003-04. Wentz led the Giants to a 21-10 overall record and a 10-1 record in the Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) during the 2016 season. Her squad made its second straight conference playoff appearance for the first time in school history and advanced to the title match before falling in five sets to the tournament's top seed.
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In 2015, Wentz guided Keystone to a 21-7 overall mark and a 9-2 league record and was named the CSAC Coach of the Year. Over the past five years, she has coached 11 all-conference players, with her players also earning three all-region awards and two All-America honors.
In addition, Wentz was selected in 2013 as a member of the NCAA Division III women’s volleyball top 25 ranking committee. She served as the chair of the AVCA Mid-Atlantic All-Region committee and held a spot on the organization’s All-America committee.
Prior to her first stint at Keystone, Wentz was the head coach at Franklin and Marshall College, where she led the Diplomats to 28 wins, a conference title and a national ranking in 2002 along with 22 victories in the 2001 season.
Wentz is an alumna of Muhlenberg College (Pa.) She earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration and played four seasons on Muhlenberg’s volleyball team during a stretch of a school-record five consecutive 20-plus win seasons. She started her collegiate coaching career as an assistant coach at Division I Lehigh University in 1998 and was an assistant at Division I Temple University in 1999 for an Owls’ squad that won its third straight Atlantic 10 title and competed in the NCAA playoffs. She earned a master’s degree in athletic administration from Temple.
Wentz and her husband, Jeremy, have four children – Jackson, Brielle, and twins Colton and Caleena.
