Sydni Salvato was announced as Southern Nazarene Women’s Basketball’s second Assistant Coach, effective June 1. Salvato joined fellow assistant coach, Kayla Tucker, in the same season, as the duo now enters their second season together in 2023.
Salvato is no stranger to success, having earned bids to the national tournament in all five seasons serving as an assistant coach.
Most recently, Salvato spent a year at Mid-America Christian University as the Graduate Assistant Coach. While with the Evangels, she helped in all aspects of team operations, as well as served as the Varsity Reserve Head Coach. During her one season with Mid-America Christian, the team experienced its winningest season in program history as they qualified for the NAIA National Tournament for just the second time in program history and earned their first ever NAIA Tournament win.
Prior to her time at MACU, Salvato served four years as a student assistant coach at Lubbock Christian University. Her primary roles within the Lubbock Christian program were player development, scouting, and team operations. The team won conference championships all four years she was with the program (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021) and three regional championships (2018, 2019, 2021). They also took home the national championship in both 2019 and 2021, becoming the first NCAA DII program to win a national title with an undefeated season.
Salvato graduated from Lubbock Christian with a degree in Exercise and Sport Science and earned a Master's in Education from Mid-America Christian University in December 2022.
She is from Lubbock, Texas and enjoys the outdoors and hunting and fishing, as well as spending time with family.
