Sybil Dosty begins her third season with the Wolf Pack women's basketball program in 2019-20, working with the post players.
Year two brought with it new challenges, with an especially young roster that included six freshmen. With just four key returners from the previous season, five of those six freshmen were thrust into major roles on the team. By the time the season had ended, that group of rookies had played 35.8 percent of the team’s minutes and set the pieces in place for the future of the program. One of those freshmen, Imani Lacy, Dosty helped develop into a major contributor. Lacy led all Wolf Pack freshmen averaging 6.7 points per game and became just the second Wolf Pack freshman since 2008 to score 20 points in a single game when she totaled 20 at New Mexico.
Dosty also worked with Terae Briggs and helped guide her to a career year in her senior season. Throughout the year, Briggs collected a career-high 10 double-doubles, which ranked third in the Mountain West. She averaged 13.9 points per game and 7.8 rebounds per game, both of which were top 10 in the conference. With her strong play, Briggs earned an All-Mountain West honorable mention for the first time in her career.
In her first year on staff, Dosty helped guide the Wolf Pack to its first winning season in four years and reach 19 wins, second most in program history. Nevada began the Mountain West Tournament as the No. 7 seed and picked up upset after upset, defeating No. 2 UNLV in double overtime and No. 3 Wyoming to reach its first ever Mountain West Championship game. Although the Pack lost in the championship to No. 1 Boise State on a last second buzzer beater, the tone was set for the future. Nevada went on to reach the semifinals of the Women’s Basketball Invitational, just its fourth postseason appearance in program history.
Under Dosty’s guidance, now-graduated forward Teige Zeller posted a career season in 2017-18. Zeller was one of the most dominant post players in the conference, racking up 12 double-doubles and averaging over 14 points per game and nearly nine rebounds per game, both of which were ranked highly in the league. For her efforts, Zeller earned All-Mountain West honors for the first time in her career.
Dosty came to Nevada after a one-year stint as an assistant coach at the University of Hawai’i in 2016-17. She also served as an assistant coach at Seattle for one season. Before her coaching career began she worked with the Arizona State women’s basketball program and Coach Levens as a graduate assistant and video coordinator.
While at ASU she assisted with recruiting, game preparation and management, staff meetings, and video operations, among other duties. Prior to ASU she worked professionally as a trainer and team coach with the Jump Athletic Youth Basketball AAU team. She also spent a couple of years playing professional basketball overseas.
Her collegiate playing career included stints at the University of Tennessee and Arizona State. She began her career at Tennessee and played for legendary coach Pat Summitt for the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons. During her freshman year she helped the Volunteers reach the Final Four. After two seasons at Tennessee, Dosty, a native of Tucson, transferred to Arizona State where she played her final two years of college basketball. The 2009 Pac-10 Women’s Basketball Scholar Athlete of the Year, she helped lead the Sun Devils to an Elite Eight appearance.
Dosty earned both of her degrees from Arizona State University, obtaining her bachelor’s in communications and African-American studies in 2008 and her master’s in liberal studies in 2013.
