The St. Thomas Aquinas College Athletics Department and Director of Athletics Margaret Alaimo announced the hiring of Nicholas Basco as the Spartans' Women's Volleyball Head Coach on February 5, 2025.

Basco arrives in Sparkill after spending the last two seasons as an assistant coach for the Fairleigh Dickinson Men's Volleyball program in New Jersey, where he has been involved in all apects of the program. It included organizing and facilitating meetings, practice schedules, game-day logistics and film sessions. He was also responsible for coordinating and managing recruitment, including the scouting of potential student-athletes and evaluating talent, while also ensuring NCAA Division I compliance and institutional policies, maintaining detailed records and documentation.

"We are excited to welcome Nick to the St. Thomas Aquinas College community and our Spartan family," stated STAC Director of Athletics Margaret Alaimo. "It became clear througout the search process that Nick is the right person to lead our volleyball program forward. His energy and passion for both the sport and the student-athlete experience is just what we were looking for."

Coach Basco's talents also took him to the Garden Empire Volleyball Association, where he served as an assistant coach for Boys Under-17 squad in the summer of 2024. Nicholas lead the tryout and evaluation sessions, helped coordinate and run drills with the emphasis on executing team development, worked with individual players to develop fundamental and advanced skills and managed team logistics during games to ensure players were well prepared and focused for competition.
 
Basco's collegiate playing career spanned four years (2020-23) at Nichols College in Dudley, Massachusetts, where he earned the New England Collegiate Conference's Defensive Player of the Year award in 2021 and was a part of an NECC Conference Championship in 2023. His 2023 squad was also ranked in the Top-15 in the American Volleyball Coaches Association Division III poll.

Basco graduated from Nichols College in 2023 with a Bachelor of Science Business Administration Degree - Sport Management and is currently enrolled in the Master of Science - Sport Administration program at Fairleigh Dickinson University.