Angelika co-captained the Mercer County Community College women’s basketball teams that won the Region XIX Championships in 1999 and 2000. She was named Region XIX Player of the Year in 2000, as well as First Team All-Region XIX in 1999. As a 5-foot-9 guard, Angelika scored a whopping 442 points during the 19992000 season. While at Mercer, she averaged 14.3 points per game and 5.5 assists per game.
After she graduated from Mercer, Angelika became a two-sport athlete at Long Island University (LIU) Brooklyn, lettering in two seasons with the women’s basketball team and also co-captaining the lacrosse team her senior year. She led the team in assists in both her seasons and made the NEC All-Tournament team both years, and her 229 career assists still ranks 12th in program history. Her 136 assists in her first season with the Blackbirds is the fifth-most in a single season for the program, and she helped the Blackbirds win the 2001 NEC title that year. The following year, she was the recipient of LIU Brooklyn’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year award. Angelika graduated from LIU Brooklyn in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Sport Science with specialization in Adapted Physical Science.
Angelika’s coaching career began at LIU Brooklyn, where she served as assistant coach of the women’s basketball team from 2003- 2008. During those five years, she helped the team record their two winningest seasons in program history, going 22-9 and winning the NEC regular season title in 2006-07, also earning the program’s first-ever berth to the WNIT that season. In 2008, LIU Brooklyn went 24-8, the most victories in a single season for the program.
After coaching for her alma mater, Anglika served as assistant head coach at Monmouth University (2009 – 2011), helping the team reach the NEC Championship game in 2010-2011. From 2011 to 2019, Angelika served as the associate head coach at Fordham University. In her tenure at Fordham, her teams won two Atlantic 10 Championships and also finished six seasons with 20-plus wins, including the 2018-2019 season when they finished 25-9 and won the A10 Tournament title.
In April 2019, Angelika was named the seventh head coach at Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU). In her last two years at FDU, she captured back-to-back Northeast Conference regular season championships and Coach of the Year honors. In April of 2023, Angelika accepted a position as head coach at Iona University.
Angelika’s ultimate goal has always been and will continue to be to help student-athletes become leaders and champions in life.
