Angie Nelp - Women's Basketball Coach

Angie Nelp

Title:
Head Coach
Email:
angie-nelp@utulsa.edu
Phone:
918.631.2043

	The Nelp File

	PERSONAL INFORMATION
	Hometown: Eufaula, Okla. Education: Colorado State, 2002 Family: husband, Jake, and four children: JJ, Louis, Ellie Kaye and Harrison

	COACHING EXPERIENCE
	2021-present Tulsa, Head Coach 2017-21 Arizona State, Associate Head Coach 2015-17 Rice, Assistant Coach 2011-15 Mercer, Assistant Coach

Angie Nelp will enter her fifth season in 2025-26 as the head women’s basketball coach at The University of Tulsa. She became the school’s 11^th head coach in women’s basketball history when appointed to the position on April 12, 2021.

In four seasons, Nelp has compiled a 76-49 record for the third-most wins by a Golden Hurricane coach in program history. She has won the most games of any Tulsa coach in their first four seasons and is the first coach in program history to post winning records in every season at TU. She’s also the only coach to lead Tulsa to three postseasons and post 10 or more home wins in three consecutive seasons.

While at TU, Nelp’s players have earned two WBCA All-America honors, two WBCA Region Finalist distinctions, one American Conference Player of the Year, one American Ambassador Award, one American Most Improved Player of the Year, one American Freshman of the Year, five All-Conference awards and four All-Freshman honors.

In her 17-year Division I coaching career, Nelp has helped lead teams to postseason competition 11 times. She has coached 38 all-conference players, nine conference players of the year, four conference freshman of the year honorees, 50 academic all-conference selections and has had 20 players play professionally.

Nelp’s 2024-25 squad would finish with a 17-15 overall record, hitting the 17-win mark for the fourth consecutive season. The Hurricane went 11-7 in AAC play to finish fifth in standings, winning the final five regular season games to earn a bid to the WNIT for her third postseason trip as head coach and the program’s eighth overall selection to a postseason. Nelp helped coach Delanie Crawford to unanimous first team all-conference status and Kennedi Alexander to all-freshman honors. Crawford also earned the prestigious American Athletic Conference Ambassador Award for her stellar play on the court, sportsmanship and her 200+ hours of community service. As a unit, Tulsa finished the season as leaders of the AAC in assists (14.5) and steals (9.88) per game.

The 2023-24 season was historic under the leadership of Nelp in her third year at the helm as the Golden Hurrricane posted the school’s best record in 19 years at 25-10 with a share of the American Athletic Conference regular season championship with 13 wins to only five losses in league play. Nelp coached AAC Player of the Year Temira Poindexter and AAC Most Improved Player of the Year Delanie Crawford to all-conference honors and WBCA All-American Honorable Mention status. During the season, Nelp pushed her squad to victories over teams from the ACC, SEC, Big 12 and Big East and ended the year with a quarterfinal run in the inaugural Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament (WBIT).

During the 2022-23 campaign, Tulsa recorded a 17-13 mark despite injuries that sidelined three of its top seven players for nearly half the season. Tulsa’s 17 wins matched the win total from the previous year for the most wins since the 2014-15 campaign. The Golden Hurricane posted a 5-0 record to start league play, the best in Tulsa’s nine-year history in the American Athletic Conference and put together a program-best nine-game home winning streak (Feb. 27, 2022-Jan. 4, 2023).

Nelp coached sophomore Temira Poindexter to first-team all-conference honors in 2023, which was the first time Tulsa had a first-team selection during its first nine years of league membership. In addition, newcomer Ahrray Young was named to the all-freshmen team and senior Maya Mayberry was honored with the American Athletic Conference’s Ambassador Award, which recognizes sportsmanship, ethical behavior, fair play and integrity, along with community service off the court.

In her first season leading the Tulsa program (2021-22), Nelp guided Tulsa to the second round of the WNIT, the program’s first postseason appearance in seven years. The Hurricane recorded a 17-11 overall record, the most wins in eight years, and started the year with a 10-0 mark for the best start in school history, as well as the longest winning streak in school history. Poindexter was named the American Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year, while being joined by fellow newcomer Delanie Crawford on the league’s all-freshmen team. Sophomore Wyvette Mayberry earned all-conference second team honors.

Nelp came to Tulsa following four seasons (2017-21) on the coaching staff at Arizona State. She spent her first three years as an assistant coach and was promoted to associate head coach in April 2020. During her tenure, the Sun Devils posted a .617 winning percentage with an overall 76-47 record and advanced to the postseason three times. ASU played in the NCAA Tournament twice, moving to the “Sweet Sixteen” in the 2018-19 campaign, and competed in the WNIT during the 2020-21 campaign.

During her time in Tempe, the program had the nation’s No. 6-ranked recruiting class in 2020 with four players ranked among ESPN’s top 30 by position. She also recruited and signed the 2018 U-18 European Championship MVP.

Nelp joined ASU from Rice University where she helped guide the Owls to the WBI Championship, the school's first postseason title, and 22 victories in 2016-17, the second-most wins in a single season. The Owls improved by 13 wins from her first to second season, one of the top increments in the nation.

Rice led all of Conference USA in total assists (558) and total rebounds (1,308) while setting a single-season program record in 3-pointers (242). In addition, the Owls ranked second in the league in assists per game (15.9), field goal percentage (.444), made three-pointers (242) and free throw attempts (626).

The Owls set a school record with 13 home victories in the 2016-17 season and the team's 9-2 start was the best by a Rice squad since the 1988-89 season.

Nelp joined the Owls after spending four seasons (2011-15) as an assistant coach at Mercer University where she was responsible for coaching the guards, as well as scout and film preparation. She coordinated Mercer’s recruiting efforts that saw the Bears sign two ESPN top 70 players along with two Georgia state players of the year.

Nelp helped lead Mercer to two 20-win seasons, setting school records for most conference and non-conference wins while orchestrating one of the nation’s quickest program turnarounds in one year as the Bears went from six to 20 wins.

Before her stint at Mercer, Nelp served as assistant director of basketball operations at Marquette University (2008-10). She also spent one season as a graduate assistant coach on the Arkansas women's basketball staff under then head coach Tom Collen during the 2007-08 campaign.

Nelp played collegiately at Colorado State (1998-02), accumulating 1,397 points, 629 rebounds, 356 assists and 261 steals in four seasons, and leading the Rams to three NCAA Tournament appearances. She earned Mountain West Defensive Player of the Year honors, was a first-team All-MWC selection, a Kodak All-America Honorable Mention honoree and was named an academic all-conference performer all four seasons. Nelp was inducted into the Colorado State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2019.

A native of Eufaula, Okla., Nelp, formerly Angie Gorton, starred at Canadian High School in Oklahoma, and led her team to the 1998 Oklahoma State Championship while earning state tournament MVP honors and was tabbed as the 1998 Oklahoma Gatorade Player of the Year.

After graduating from Colorado State in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in health and exercise science, she went on to spend two seasons with the NWBL Colorado Chill and one season with 08 Stockholm in Sweden. As a professional, she helped lead the Chill to the 2005 NWBL title and 08 Stockholm to the 2003 Swedish national crown.

Following her professional career, Nelp returned to the United States to serve as the head girls' basketball coach at Yorktown High in Yorktown, Ind.

Nelp and her husband Jake have four children: JJ, Louis, Ellie Kaye and Harrison.

NELP’S COLLEGIATE COACHING EXPERIENCE

YEAR	SCHOOL	POSITION	RECORD	POSTSEASON
2007-08	Arkansas	Graduate Assistant	17-13
2008-09	Marquette	Asst. Director of Operations	17-16	WNIT Second Round
2009-10	Marquette	Asst. Director of Operations	17-16	WNIT Second Round
2011-12	Mercer	Assistant Coach	6-23
2012-13	Mercer	Assistant Coach	20-12	WBI First Round
2013-14	Mercer	Assistant Coach	17-14
2014-15	Mercer	Assistant Coach	20-15	WBI Third Round
2015-16	Rice	Assistant Coach	9-22
2016-17	Rice	Assistant Coach	22-13	WBI Champions
2017-18	Arizona State	Assistant Coach	22-13	NCAA Second Round
2018-19	Arizona State	Assistant Coach	22-11	NCAA Sweet 16
2019-20	Arizona State	Assistant Coach	20-11	Canceled
2020-21	Arizona State	Associate Head Coach	12-12	WNIT First Round
2021-22	Tulsa	Head Coach	17-11	WNIT Second Round
2022-23	Tulsa	Head Coach	17-13
2023-24	Tulsa	Head Coach	25-10	WBIT Quarterfinal
2024-25	Tulsa	Head Coach	17-15	WNIT First Round