The West Virginia Wesleyan Athletic Department announced the hiring of Vicky Bullett as the head coach of the West Virginia Wesleyan women's basketball team in May of 2016 and is entering her fifth season at the helm.
From 2016-2018 West Virginia Wesleyan Women’s Basketball team has raised the bar in the classroom. During Bullet's tenure, her team has earned an average GPA of 3.60, which has been either first or second among the 22 sports in the Wesleyan Athletics program.
Bullett arrived at West Virginia Wesleyan after spending five years as an educator and a women's basketball coach at Hagerstown Community College in Hagerstown, Md. While coaching and teaching, she also received a Masters of Sports Science from the United States Sports Academy in 2015.
Bullett is a native of Martinsburg, W. Va. and a 1985 graduate of Martinsburg High School.
She continued her basketball career receiving a scholarship from the University of Maryland. She graduated in 1990 with a bachelor's degree in general studies with an emphasis on early childhood education.
She is one of the most decorated women's basketball players of all time. During her collegiate playing career at the University of Maryland, she was named to the All-ACC First Team in 1987, 1988 and 1989. Her 1989 season was perhaps one of the best seasons ever by any collegiate player. She was named the 1989 ACC Player of the Year, the ACC MVP and a Kodak All-American.
Bullett was the first player in Maryland history to register two seasons of 500 points or more and one of only five players in school history to score 600 points or more in one season (686). In 2003, she was named to the ACC Women's Basketball 50th Anniversary Team. She was selected to the 1988 and 1992 United States Olympic Teams, which won gold and bronze medals respectively.
In honor of being a member of the 1988 Gold Medal Team, the city of Martinsburg renamed the street in which she grew up to "Vicky Bullett Street." In 1997, she was the first player chosen in the WNBA Draft by the Charlotte Sting and played three seasons for the Sting before being traded to the Washington Mystics where she played for three seasons.
Bullett played a total of six seasons in the WNBA, scoring 2,018 points during her career. Prior to and following her WNBA career, she played internationally in Italy and Brazil.
Bullett was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame of 2011. She is also a member of the Martinsburg High School Hall of Fame, the West Virginia All Black Schools Sports and Academic Hall of Fame, the University of Maryland Hall of Fame and the West Virginia Sports Writer Hall of Fame.
Before starting her coaching career at Hagerstown Community College, she returned home to Martinsburg where she taught at South Middle School for six years.
At Hagerstown Community College, she served as an assistant coach one year before taking over the head coaching position in 2012. Her 2015-16 squad posted a 24-8 record and to the NJCAA National Championships in Overland Park, Kan.
Coach Bullett is joined with her husband Thomas Lange and their two four-legged friends Simone and Ceaser.
