Jessica Mannetti

Biography

The second longest tenured head coach and eight wins shy of becoming the second coach in program history to hit 200 career victories, Jessica Mannetti enters her 14th season at the helm of the Sacred Heart University women’s basketball team in 2026-27. Under Mannetti’s leadership. Sacred Heart is one of the top programs in the Northeast with five postseason appearances, including back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances and the programs first ever win in the NCAA Tournament over Southern University in 2023. Overall, Mannetti holds a 192-195 (.496) career record having qualified for postseason conference tournaments in all but two seasons with a pair of NEC Regular Season Championships and a pair of NEC Tournament Championships to her credit. Individually, Mannetti cultivated one of the most decorated players in program history, Ny’Ceara Pryor who became the first player in program history to make an appearance in a WNBA game with the New York Liberty. A two-time player of the year and two-time defensive player of the year, Pryor closed out her career at SHU third all-time in scoring (1,790) and second all-time in steals (257). The Baltimore, Md. native led all Division I women’s basketball players in steals per game as a freshman and junior and was the first rookie in NEC history to win Player, Defensive Player and Rookie of the Year accolades in the same season. She also became just the fifth player in league history to repeat at Player of the Year. Throughout her tenure, Ma