Coach Wentz has been professionally coaching in the sport of volleyball for 27 years. She has coached everything from middle school/junior high to top​ 25 ranked Division 1 collegiate teams. Coach Wentz has won or competed for a championship at every school that she has ever coached at.  She has coached several collegiate NCAA All-Americans and her teams have ranked in the top 25 nationally on several occasions. Coach Wentz focuses on being a very technical and tactical coach, and loves sharing her passion of the game with her athletes.   Coach Wentz's desire is that an athlete wants to continue to play, develops a pure love of the game, and knows that they can accomplish anything they work hard towards.  This is how Coach Wentz defines a successful team, not the wins and losses, though the wins are nice!  

 

Nicole Wentz was hired as the Cortland women's volleyball head coach in June 2017 and coached Cortland for the 2017 and 2018 seasons before resigning to spend more time with her family and ending her long commute. 

 

She previously served as the head women's volleyball coach at Keystone College for five seasons from 2012-2016 and two years from 2003-2004.  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 in 2016 and advanced to the title match before falling in five sets to the tournament's top seed. 

 

In 2015, Wentz guided Keystone to a 21-7 overall mark and a 9-2 league record and was named CSAC Coach of the Year.  Over her past five years at Keystone College, Coach Wentz coached 11 all-conference players, with her players 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 chair of the AVCA Mid-Atlantic All-Region Team committee and held a spot on the organization's All-America Team committee. 

 

Prior to her first stint at Keystone, Wentz was the head coach at Franklin & Marshall College, where she led the Diplomats to 28 wins, a conference title, and a national ranking in 2002, and 22 victories in the 2001 season. 

 

She started her collegiate coaching career as an assistant at Division 1 Lehigh University in 1998. She was an assistant at Division 1 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 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. 

 

Coach Wentz has lived in Northeastern Pennsylvania since 2003, but is originally from Long Island, NY.  Her Carle Place High School Volleyball team reached the New York State section finals in her senior year (as the lone senior), the furthest the program had achieved up until that point.  Two years later, her high school team won the state championship in 1996, and 1998.  Several of her teammates went on to play Division 1, Division 2, and elite Division 3 collegiate volleyball. Coach Wentz played travel volleyball for the elite Long Island Big Apple Volleyball Club in 1994, and competed in club tournaments all over the country.    Coach Wentz was rated one of the top 50 volleyball athletes on Long Island in 1993 and 1994.  

 

Throughout her coaching career, Coach Wentz has worked with USA Volleyball National Team coaches, Olympians, All-World Team international athletes, and several coaches that were former athletes on their country's national team.  Coach Wentz has a high level of technical knowledge, and her teaching style allows players to see the correction they need to make quickly without much coaching imput.  Coach Wentz is CAP 1 certified, and Gold Medal Squared trained.  

 

Coach Wentz and her husband Jeremy have four children- Jackson, Brielle, and twins Colton and Caleena.  Brielle and Jackson are avid volleyball players, and Calee and Colton are just getting started.  Coach Wentz has plans to build a gymnasium in Ransom Twp, PA in the near future for her future Endless Momentum Volleyball teams.