Tori Niemann - Women's Basketball Coach - University of North Carolina Athletics

Tori Niemann

Title:
Director of Outreach, Alumni Relations and Administration
Email:
tniemann@email.unc.edu

Tori Niemann serves as the Director of Outreach, Alumni Relations and Administration for the UNC women’s basketball program. She joined the staff in July of 2019.

Niemann came to Chapel Hill from Clemson University, where she spent two years as Assistant Director of Student-Athlete Development. She coordinated all community service and engagement initiatives for the Tigers as well as assisting in professional, career and personal development. Among the events Niemann organized at Clemson were sport clinics for ClemsonLIFE students, Be A TIGER Field Day and Scout Day. She also coordinated international and domestic service trips for student-athletes. In her second year with the Tigers, Niemann facilitated 5,700 hours of service with 97 percent student-athlete participation.

Prior to Clemson, Niemann spent two years working at her alma mater, Western Illinois, as the academic coordinator for the football, women’s basketball, softball, volleyball, men’s soccer, and women’s soccer teams. She also served as the Life Skills Coordinator, organizing career, personal, and leadership development programming, and developed Women Empowering, an initiative for female student-athletes.

Niemann graduated from WIU in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She went on to earn a master’s degree in sport management in 2015.

She played two years of basketball at the University of Missouri before transferring to WIU, where she was a two-year letterwinner for the Leathernecks. As a junior, she was named to the Summit League All-Newcomer Team and was honorable mention All-Summit League.

A native of Canton, Mo., Niemann is a member of Women Leaders in College Sports and N4A. She has participated in the NCAA Leadership Forum as a facilitator, the NCAA Leadership Academy Workshop and the NCAA Effective Facilitation Workshop.