Rachel Nagel

Rachel Nagel was named an assistant coach on May 20, 2022 and enters her second season with the Toreros.

Nagel joins the program after most recently serving as a Co-Director of Nike US Sports Camps in addition to being a teacher and girls basketball coach at Rolling Hills Prep in San Pedro, Calif. Prior to her time at Rolling Hills Prep, Nagel was the head coach of her alma mater, Whitney High School, coaching the girls varsity program.

Nagel was a standout player at UC Davis from 2014-2018, where she scored over 1,000 points. Nagel garnered back-to-back Big West Regular Season Conference Championships, a trip to the WNIT Sweet Sixteen in 2017, and the WNIT Elite Eight the following season in her time with the Aggies.

Nagel made the All-Big West Conference team in 2017, and was on the Big West All-Academic team three years in a row. During her senior year, she started all 35 games for UC Davis and played the most minutes of any Aggie at 1,022 minutes. She ranked fourth in the Big West in three-point percentage, sixth in three-pointers per game (1.9), second in three-pointers overall (65), and sixth on the UC Davis all-time single season list in three-point percentage (.419).

Nagel graduated from UC Davis with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology.