Northern Kentucky University Athletics

Winstel led NKU to a pair of NCAA Division II national championships (2000 and 2008) and
finished with a record of 636-214 as the Norse head coach. She was named the national
coach of the decade by Women’s Division II Bulletin in 2009, and her basketball program
was also tabbed the best during that decade by that same publication. A six-time Great
Lakes Valley Conference Coach of the Year, Winstel was named the WBCA Division II
National Coach of the Year in 1999-2000 after leading NKU to its first national title. The
Norse posted a 32-2 record that season and won 24 consecutive games en route to the
school’s first-ever national championship. Winstel played for then-Northern Kentucky State
College’s first women’s basketball team in 1974, and she scored 787 career points in three
seasons. Winstel also averaged 8.3 rebounds per game during her playing career.