Purchase College Athletics

Dan Bozzelli enters his fourth year as head coach of the Panthers in 2023-24.

After his first season was canceled due to Covid, he led Purchase to the playoffs in 2021-22 and improved on the team's win total last season (22-23).

Prior to Purchase, Bozzelli served as the top assistant coach at Vassar College and helped lead the Brewers to 22 overall wins, 14 in the Liberty League and a 2019-20 postseason appearance in the conference championship tournament.

Bozzelli has over 15 years of coaching and operations experience, including a year recently spent at Division I Eastern Kentucky University where he served as the Director of Basketball Operations. From 2012-2015, Bozzelli served as an assistant at the University of Rochester, helping the Yellowjackets achieve a No. 1 ranking in the nation in 2013, along with a conference championship title. Prior to that, Bozzelli was a three-year assistant at Nazareth College in Rochester, N.Y., helping the Golden Flyers to a 2010 Empire 8 championship, while also serving as the Assistant Compliance Director for all sports. 

His coaching resume also boasts stops at Wilmington University, Ithaca College and Rochester Institute of Technology, along with camps at the University of Notre Dame, Davidson College, Dickinson College, Siena College and RIT.

Bozzelli earned his undergraduate degree in physical education from SUNY Cortland, where he was also a two-year basketball letter winner.

The Rochester, N.Y. native continued his education while coaching at Ithaca, earning a master's degree in physical education in 2008. He later pursued post-graduate course work in the field of higher education while coaching at the University of Rochester.