Kaitlyn Cresencia has been hired as an assistant coach for the Princeton women’s basketball staff, head coach Courtney Banghart has announced.
Cresencia spent the last two seasons as a graduate assistant at Mercer University. During her time, the team won the 2016-17 Southern Conference (SoCon) regular season crown en route to a berth in the Women’s National Invitational Tournament (WNIT). Kahlia Lawrence was also selected as the SoCon Player of the Year in back-to-back years. The grad assistant contributed to the squad’s social media accounts along with scouting reports using Synergy, facilitating office operations including JumpForward data entry, assisting with post and guard workouts and tracked play call and lineup efficiencies.
The new Princeton assistant coach created a blog titled “The Coaching Assist.” The blog is crafted as a resource to help prepare and assist other coaches in growing the game. It features coach interviews that focuses on their experiences and expertise. Cresencia is also deeply involved in the Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Association (WBCA), an organization that Banghart is on the Board of Directors. Cresencia was a presenter at the WBCA Final Four Coaches’ Huddle in the Spring of 2016 and graduated from the organization’s “So You Want To Be A Coach” Program in 2015.
“I am so grateful and excited for this opportunity to join Coach Banghart and her incredible staff at Princeton,” mentioned Cresencia. “Princeton’s standard of excellence is one that I have long admired, and I have so much respect for the culture of this program. I’m looking forward to working with the student-athletes and helping them achieve their goals with confidence on and off of the court.”
“It’s with great excitement that we welcome Kaitlyn to Princeton,” said Banghart. “Kaitlyn brings positive energy and an eagerness to contribute to all parts of the program. She is a proven go-getter, evidenced by her creating the Coaching Assist- a website that threads the needle between coaches and aspiring coaches (https://thecoachingassist.com/). She comes very highly regarded by the many places and coaches that she’s touched in her journey. Kaitlyn has great passion for Princeton and the excellence that pervades this place, which was clear through our many conversations. She has already hit the ground running and we’re thrilled for her to be a Tiger.”
Cresencia’s other experience includes coaching the New Jersey Panthers AAU squad while being the assistant director at Mercer, Austin Peay and Connecticut College basketball camps. She graduated from Connecticut College, where she was a four-year letter winner and captain, with a degree in Economics in 2015 and earned her Master’s in Higher Education, Leadership from Mercer in 2016.
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