Aaron Nester was an assistant under Bob Amsberry at both Wartburg and Rockford.  Wartburg athletics photo

Oglethorpe announced the hiring of Aaron Nester to the position of head women's basketball coach, effective immediately. Nester, who has spent the last five seasons as an assistant coach at Wartburg, brings a total of nine years of experience at the Division III level to the Stormy Petrel women's basketball program.

Nester takes over a position that was held by both Ron Sattele and Fallon Rehmert this past season. Rehmert took over early in the year after Sattele took "an extended leave of absence" from his coaching duties to deal with an illness in his family. 

Oglethorpe finished 6-19 this past season.
Nester has worked under head coach Bob Amsberry at Wartburg in each of the last five years and also came to Wartburg with Amsberry after the two combined to lift Rockford, Nester's alma mater, to its best four-year stretch in program history. At Wartburg, Amsberry and Nester inherited a team that was 7-18 in the previous season and turned them into a 20-game winner, having posted a 21-5 overall record in 2010-11.

In addition to his coaching stints with Wartburg and Rockford, Nester has served as a coach for USA Athletes International on three separate trips abroad, most recently as the head coach of a squad of college women's players on a 10-day tour in Ireland in 2009. Throughout his coaching career Nester has handled all facets of running a successful program including preparing scouting reports, coordinating schedule and team travel, analyzing game video and assisting with in-game strategy.