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Stephanie Albano

  • Title
    Senior Associate Athletics Director for Internal Operations/Senior Woman Administrator
  • Email
    salbano@daemen.edu
  • Phone
    (716) 566-7860
  • Daemen Tenure
    2015-Present
  • Alma Mater
    UNC-Chapel Hill '09
A veteran head coach and administrator, Stephanie Albano was promoted to Senior Associate Athletics Director for Internal Operations in December of 2022. The promotion came a year after she made the transition from Head Women's Volleyball Coach to the role of Athletics Chief of Staff/Business Manager. As part of the transition, Albano stepped down from her duties as Head Women's Volleyball Coach.

Albano has long served in various administrative capacities at Daemen, including a stint as the Division's Senior Woman Administrator and most recently as the Assistant Athletics Director for Administration. In her new role, she will assist Athletic Director Traci Murphy with the implementation of the recently completed strategic plan and special program initiatives, while handling the Division's business affairs. Albano will continue to hold a seat on the Division's Leadership Team, a group charged with the day-to-day management of Daemen Athletics.

"Stephanie has been an incredible leader for us, as both a coach and administrator," Murphy said. "Throughout her tenure, she has shown herself to be thoughtful, organized and driven. I have no doubt that she will continue to be an outstanding asset to our Division as she tackles this new challenge."

"There is never an easy or right time to take a different path or make a change," Albano said. "I am so grateful that I was able to be a part of the women's volleyball program over the past seven seasons. What we were all able to do with the program has been nothing short of amazing. Hard and challenging for sure, yet amazing. I am so proud of all the women that I had the opportunity to coach and grateful for the belief and trust that they had in my vision. I am excited for this next step with Daemen Athletics and to serve in a new capacity."

Albano arrived at Daemen as the school was completing its transition from NAIA to NCAA membership. She served as the Associate Head Women's Volleyball Coach in 2015 before being promoted to the head coaching position the following year. In six seasons at the helm, Albano led the Wildcats to a 101-58 record, three East Coast Conference regular season championships, two conference tournament titles and three NCAA tournament berths. Albano guided the program to its first-ever East Regional championship in 2021, advancing to the NCAA Division II Women's Volleyball Championship Elite Eight during a 25-8 campaign.

Prior to her arrival at Daemen, Albano held assistant coaching positions at Canisius College, Medaille College and the University at Buffalo. The Western New York native was a standout student-athlete before entering the coaching profession. As a high school senior, she was named the Gatorade New York State Women's Volleyball Player of the Year and went on to a four-year career at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill where she graduated in 2009 with a degree in Business Administration.