Title: | Head Coach |
City: | Scottsbluff |
State: | Nebraska |
Phone: | Office: 308-635-6780 |
Phone: | Cell: 701-789-1913 |
Email: | engelw@wncc.edu |
Hometown: | Cooperstown, N.D. |
Previous College: | Dakota College-Bottineau/Dickinson State |
Billy Engel just finished his second year as the head coach at WNCC and the Cougars made it to the Region IX semi-finals before falling. Engel has been at WNCC for the past five years, the first three as an assistant coach which included helping the Cougars to a Region IX title in 2018. Engel's overall record is 25-25, but that included a shortened COVID season in 2020-21.
Engel grew up in Cooperstown, North Dakota, and went on to play basketball at Dakota College-Bottineau and the Dickinson State in North Dakota. Engel played the 2013-14 season at Dakota College where he averaged 6.7 points a game and starting 31 of 33 games. He made 31 3-pointers that season and shot 90 pecent from the free throw line (54-of-60). At Dickinson in 2015-16, Engel averaged 4.8 points a game while shooting 90.2 percent from the free throw line (37-of-41).