Haley Horstman has been hired as the new Assistant Coach for the Tiffin University women's basketball team.
Haley Horstman enters her first year as Assistant Coach for Tiffin University's women's basketball program. Prior to this year, Horstman spent the 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons as the graduate assistant coach for Bluffton University where she graduated in May 2021, with her MBA focused in Leadership. Over her two years at Bluffton she helped coach the Beavers to a 28-19 record. While there, she was an integral part of recruiting, game-planning, and opponent scouting. She helped plan and administer team and individual strength and conditioning and basketball workouts as well as skill development sessions. During her time with Bluffton, four players were selected to receive HCAC All-Conference Team awards.
Before Horstman's coaching debut at Bluffton, she was a four year starter and captain for the University of Findlay. She was part of a 20+ win season her senior year, making a run to the GMAC tournament Championship game and qualifying for the NCAA DII Tournament. Earning herself All-Conference awards as well as collecting 1,000+ career points, Horstman graduated in 2018 with her Bachelor's in Sports Business and Marketing, finishing with a cumulative GPA of 3.6 and earning herself GLIAC Academic Excellence Awards.
Horstman, from New Knoxville, Ohio, graduated from New Knoxville High School finishing academically with a 3.5 GPA. She was a 3 sport varsity athlete all 4 years, competing in basketball, volleyball, and track. She is New Knoxville's all-time leading scorer, a 4 time MAC First Team award winner, and 3-time team MAC POY award winner.
"We are extremely excited to bring Haley in," said Heach Coach Miriam Justinger. "She has a competitive and caring spirit that will continue to add greatness to our program and our student athletes. Being an Ohio native, Haley is familiar with the region which will be a huge help to us in recruiting efforts and getting high quality, high class student athletes in a Dragon uniform. She is familiar with the hard work it takes to be successful in our competitive conference and I can't wait to get started with her and see all that she can add to our program."