RIVERDALE, N.Y. - Former Manhattan College women's basketball player Toyelle Wilson has been named head coach at Prairie View A&M University. The captain of the Lady Jaspers' 2002-03 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) championship team, the 28-year-old Wilson becomes one of the youngest Division I women's head coaches in the nation.
Wilson had spent the previous four seasons as the top assistant coach for the Lady Panthers under Hall of Famer Cynthia Cooper-Dyke, who left Prairie View A&M to become the head coach at UNC Wilmington. During her time as an assistant, Wilson helped the Lady Panthers win three consecutive Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) regular season championships and make a pair of Women's NIT appearances. Prairie View A&M qualified for the NCAA Tournament in 2007 and 2009, the first two NCAA Tournament berths in school history.
She started her coaching career with a three-year stint at Robert Morris University, where she was an assistant for Sal Buscaglia, her coach at Manhattan. In the staff's second season, the Colonials completed the third-biggest single-season turnaround in NCAA history, posting a 20-10 record.
A 2003 Manhattan graduate, Wilson played in 107 career games for the Lady Jaspers, averaging 3.4 points and 1.8 rebounds. She tallied 154 career steals and was the team's defensive player of the year when the Lady Jaspers won the MAAC regular season and tournament titles in 2002-03.
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