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- Email:
- sestill@defiance.edu
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- Title:
- Assistant Coach
Bio
Style Harper-Estill joined the Yellow Jackets' women's basketball staff as an assistant coach in August 2025.
With over a decade of high-caliber high school coaching experience, Estill comes prepared to aid the Yellow Jackets on and off the floor. She comes well-versed in film review, scouting, the college recruitment process, running camps, and more.
Estill most recently coached at Winton Woods in Cincinnati and was an associate head coach for the last three seasons. In her last season in 2024-25, the Warriors finished 27-0 en route to the Division II Ohio girl’s basketball state championship with a win over Anthony Wayne. While at Winton Woods, Style helped develop nine athletes who went on to play college basketball, including three at the Division I level, while more than three dozen college programs extended offers to her players. Her coaching journey started as a varsity head coach at Western Hills in Cincinnati before moving on to McAuley High School after two seasons. At McAuely, she served as the JV head coach and varsity assistant, mentoring two undefeated JV teams and a varsity team that won a conference and district title. She also gained four more years of varsity head coaching experience at Saint Ursula Academy before moving on to Winton Woods in 2022. In addition to high school basketball, Estill has coached high school and middle school-level AAU hoops since 2019. She spent six years as the U16 and U17 head coach at Next Level Academy and won a pair of AAU national championships before taking over as the 5th-grade-level head coach last season.
The Cincinnati native was a standout player at Roger Bacon High School and is the program’s all-time leading scorer. In 2019, Estill was inducted into the school’s athletic hall of fame. She went on to play college basketball at West Virginia Tech and Kentucky State. She finished her bachelor’s degree in exercise science and physical education at Kentucky State in 2014.
