The City College of New York Department of Athletics is pleased to announce the promotion of 30-year coaching veteran Jamie Angeli as the Head Coach of its women’s basketball program, effective immediately. Angeli had been the Associate Head Coach and Assistant Director of Athletics for Marketing since the 2011-2012 season.
"I would certainly like to thank my former boss and director of athletics Jackee Meadow for bringing me here to City College three years ago as her associate head coach and current director of athletics Kevin Abdur-Rahman and Vice President of Student Affairs Juana Reina for allowing me the opportunity to now lead our women’s basketball program as their next head coach," Angeli said. "It’s evident in the rich diversity, sense of purpose and clear commitment to excellence that CCNY is an attractive place for student-athletes who are serious about achieving success, and I am very honored to be associated with this fine institution."
Prior to arriving at City College, Angeli has amassed an impressive coaching resume that has included successful stops at the high school, college and professional levels. Most recently, Angeli was the top assistant women’s basketball coach at NCAA division one Seattle University from 2009 to 2011. During the off-season at Seattle U, Angeli was an advance scout for the WNBA Eastern Conference Champion Washington Mystics.
Angeli boasts over 30 successful years in the basketball profession as a player, coach, administrator, author and Internet entrepreneur. Throughout his coaching career, Angeli has produced over 20 best-selling books and DVD’s on basketball.
As a professional men’s basketball coach overseas in the Middle Eastern Countries of Qatar and Kuwait, he owns a 112-25 overall record, including an unprecedented three consecutive league championships with Al Rayyan of Qatar. In addition, he led Al Rayyan to back-to-back Heir Apparent Cup Championships and Emir Cup Championships, and in 2005, the coveted Asian Cup Championship in Manila, Philippines. The first and only Asian Championship in the club’s history.
Stateside he has worked for 13 years as an assistant coach in the NCAA division one ranks under several decorated head coaches, including St. John’s Steve Lavin, South Florida’s Stan Heath, Miami’s Jim Larranga, Green Bay’s Kevin Borseth, Seattle U’s Joan Bonvicini and former NBA and Bradley University head coach Stan Albeck, who have combined for over 2,000 career victories.
A former Michigan All-State high school basketball player, Angeli continued his playing career at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. He graduated from Wisconsin-Stout in 1985. Angeli began his coaching career during the 1986-87 season as the head boys’ basketball coach at Kingsford, MI High School. Since that time, Angeli has made collegiate assistant coaching stops at Michigan Tech University in Houghton (1987-88), Bradley University in Peoria, IL (1988-89), Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH (1989-91), Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, MI (1991-94), UCLA in Los Angeles, CA (1997-2003), University of South Florida in Tampa, FL (2007-08) and Seattle University in Seattle, WA (2009-2011).
Angeli also worked 3 years as a head boys basketball coach at Norway High School (1994-97), winning a district championship for the first time in 20 years. Kingsford High School, Norway High School, Michigan Tech and Lake Superior State University are all located in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
"We have an exciting challenge ahead of us to continue to move our women’s basketball program forward as we pursue excellence in everything we do…on the basketball court, in the classroom and in the community," Angeli concluded.
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