First-year head coach Alex Jensen has hired Victoria Sun to become Utah men’s basketball’s next director of operations.
Sun joins the Runnin’ Utes staff after spending six seasons with IMG Academy, where she served as the school’s business manager for the basketball arm at the academy in Bradenton, Florida.
“I’m thrilled to have someone of Victoria’s caliber join our staff,” Jensen said in a news release. “She’s been around basketball her whole life and has done everything at an award-winning level. We’re fortunate to have Vic join our Runnin’ Utes staff.”
Before entering basketball operations, Sun was previously a sports writer from 1997-2011. She had work that appeared in the Associated Press, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Riverside Press-Enterprise, Cincinnati Post and Las Vegas Sun.
Sun moved on to the sports operation world in 2011 at Eastern Michigan, where she spent three seasons with the Eagles before taking the special assistant to the head coach role at Florida State for a season from 2014-15. She then spent one season with CSUN as its director of operations before joining IMG Academy in 2019.
“This is a very exciting time for the Utah basketball program,” Sun said. “I’m honored to join the staff and be a part of this new chapter of the program’s history. I have great respect for Coach Jensen and look forward to working with the staff and student-athletes.”