A former professional basketball player in Bulgaria, Portugal and Poland, Danyel Crutcher joined the Pioneers as a volunteer assistant coach for the 2012-13 season.
Crutcher served as a coach of the Orange High School girls basketball team (2011-12) and has worked at numerous different basketball camps. While in college, she interned for the assistant to the women’s basketball head coach and in the guidance department at Orange H.S.
A native of Orange, Crutcher was a co-captain of the women’s basketball team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and graduated with a degree in community health in 2008.