Weber State University Athletics
Women's Basketball
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
Brett Vana is in his second season as an assistant coach with the Weber State women’s basketball team. He joined the WSU program in June 2013.
Vana came to Weber State after spending two seasons as the head coach of Louisburg College in Louisburg, N.C. At Louisburg he guided the Hurricanes to a 32-3 overall record and captured the National Junior College Athletic Association’s Division II national championship during the 2012-13 season. He had numerous athletes honored along the way, including having the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association’s Junior College Player of the Year.
Under Vana, Louisburg won back-to-back Region X championships and sent numerous student-athletes to play at four year schools.
In his inaugural season at Louisburg in 2011-12, Vana’s team advanced to the NJCAA national semifinals, and he was named Region X Coach of the Year, NJCAA District J Coach of the Year and he concluded with being the WBCA Runner-up for National Coach of the Year.
Prior to Louisburg, Vana served as a trainer and talent evaluator at the Champions Academy in Indianapolis. He has spent the majority of his coaching career overseas, working with professional leagues in places including Switzerland, Germany and Denmark. Before leaving the United States in 1999, he also spent a season coaching at Western Kentucky University as a graduate assistant. He was also an assistant high school coach prior to that for one season where he won a North Carolina State Championship with Providence Day high school in Charlotte, N.C.
Vana attended Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio, where he was a four-year starter for the Storm. As a player, he received several honors including NAIA Great Lakes All-Region team and Male Athlete of the Year. In April 2000, he was inducted into the Lake Erie College Hall of Fame. He graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry.
