Department welcomes four new assistant coaches

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – RIT Executive Athletics Director Jacqueline Nicholson recently announced the addition of four new assistant coaches to the department.
 
Daniel Dubois – Swimming & Diving Assistant Coach
Dubois joins the department after serving as head coach at nearby Monroe Community College (MCC) for over 25 seasons.
 
Inducted into the National Junior College Swimming & Diving Hall of Fame in 2023, he guided the Tribune men and women to 44 Region 3 Championships while mentoring 19 individual national champions. He also served as the NJCAA Swimming & Diving Coaches Association President for 16 years.  
 
Dubois has also been an adjunct Health and Physical Education professor at MCC since 1998, teaching a variety of classes within the department.
 
Jason Kozak – Women's Volleyball Assistant Coach
Kozak comes to RIT following eight years as President and Recruiting Director of Virginia Elite Volleyball Club.
 
A veteran head coach with over nearly 30 years of experience at all three NCAA levels, he previously served as Head Coach at Division-I St. Francis University (Pa.) from 2014-16, Division-II University of Charleston from 2012-14 and Division III Hollins (Va.) from 2010-12. Kozak also had a six-year stint as an assistant coach at Division-I Virginia from 2002-08 after a season as an assistant at Division-I Penn during the 2001-02 academic year.
 
A 1997 Brockport graduate, his first coaching job was at his alma mater for a season following graduation with a degree in physical education.
 
Brianne Moxley – Women's Basketball Assistant Coach
Moxley is a 2023 graduate from D'Youville with a degree in exercise and sports studies. She was a standout on the women's basketball team, helping the Saints to the 2022 and 2023 USCAA Division I Small College National Championship. Moxley was team captain from 2022-24, earning USCAA Second Team All-American honors and an USCAA All-Academic selection.
 
Moxley played five years of varsity basketball at nearby Penfield High School, earning All-Greater Rochester honors in 2019. A captain from 2017-2019, Moxley was a First Team All-Monroe County Division I selection from 2017-2019 and was the Monroe County Division I Player of the Year in 2019.
 
Moxley coached for the Empire Dragons AAU Program and helped Penfield to the 2020-21 Sectional Championship. She is currently pursuing a master's in athletic administration from The College at Brockport.
 
Emily Nestler – Women's Basketball Assistant Coach
Emily Nestler is a 2019 Brockport graduate where she tallied 828 points, alongside 552 rebounds and 109 blocked shots – the second most in program history. A two-time All-SUNYAC selection, she also garnered CSC Academic All-America and SUNYAC Elite 20 Award honors as a senior.
 
Nestler also played a season at NCAA Division II Roberts Wesleyan, helping the Redhawks to the 2015-16 National Christian College Athletic Association championship for the first time in program history.
 
Last season, Nestler served as an assistant coach at St. John Fisher during the Cardinals' run to a third-consecutive Empire 8 Championship and appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
 
Nestler is a middle school social studies teacher at Our Lady of Mercy and has also served the athletic department in a variety of roles, including modified basketball coach and a co-coach of Mercy's strength and conditioning camp.