Michelle Sword

Michelle Sword

Michelle Sword enters her sixth season as a member of the Wildcat coaching staff in 2025-26. Sword arrived at Villanova in 2020-21 after spending the previous eight seasons on Denise Dillon’s Drexel University staff.
 
In her role, Sword will assist with on-court coaching duties, handle film breakdown of Wildcat players and Villanova opponents and she will serve as one of the program’s on road recruiters.
 
Sword began her Drexel career as the team’s Graduate Assistant from 2012-2014. In this position, she was responsible for the day-to-day operations within the basketball team, including travel and meal plan coordination, practice organization and office management. For the past six seasons, Sword was a full-time assistant on the Drexel coaching staff where she helped the Dragons to five 20-win seasons, five WNIT berths, three CAA tournament championship games and CAA regular season championships in 2017-18 and 2019-20.
 
She spent her collegiate career at Saint Joseph’s University where she was four-year standout finishing as the program's all-time leader for games played with 127. Sword, who ranks 14th on the Hawks all-time scoring list with 1,184 points, earned second team All-Atlantic 10 honors as a senior in 2012 when she averaged a team-high 13.0 points per game. She also garnered a spot on the 2012 Atlantic 10 All-Defensive Team and the 2012 All-Philadelphia Big 5 First Team.
 
Sword earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Interdisciplinary Health Science from Saint Joseph’s in 2012 and a Master’s Degree in Sports Management from Drexel in 2014. Sword and her husband, Myles, reside in Coatesville with their two-year old daughter, Myla.