After a successful run as an assistant coach at the NCAA Division III level, Abbey McNeil joined the Hillsdale College women’s basketball coaching staff in June 2023, bringing her experience in the coaching profession to a new challenge with the Chargers.

In two seasons with the program, she's proven to be an invaluable asset to the team, helping guide the Chargers to the program's best season since 2009 and its first NCAA Tournament berth since 2018 during the 2024-25 campaign. In recognition of her contributions, McNeil was promoted to Associate Head Coach.

McNeil joined Hillsdale in 2023 from her alma mater, the University of Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio. During a four-year stint with the Purple Raiders, McNeil helped Mount Union record its first Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament win in five seasons in a 68-64 upset of third-seeded Marietta in February of 2022, and also assisted in the development of All-OAC honorees Emma Cannon and Isi Palamone.

Prior to Mount Union, McNeil also spent two seasons as the assistant coach at Penn State – Behrend, also a Division III program. In her final season with the Lions in 2018-19, McNeil helped lead PSU-Behrend to the Alleghany Mountain Collegiate Conference Tournament final for the first time since 2012-13.

Her coaching experience also includes spending a summer as an assistant coach at the Amateur Athletic Union Crons Organization and working as a camp counselor at the Pine Community Center.

McNeil got into coaching after an excellent career as a player at Mount Union from 2013 to 2017. The four-year letterwinner was a contributor off the bench on the 2015-16 Mount Union team that won 20 games, took the OAC Tournament title and made the NCAA Division III Tournament for just the seventh time in program history. The following season, as a senior, McNeil led Mount Union in scoring with 13.3 points and earned All-OAC Honorable Mention, while also tying what was then the program record for single game 3-pointers made with eight in a contest at Baldwin-Wallace.

McNeil was a member of the Alpha Lambda Delta and Lambda Pi Ada honor societies while at Mount Union, and graduated in 2017 with a B.A. in integrated media and a minor in sports business and coaching. A Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania native who was a four-year varsity player at Vincentan Academy, McNeil also has a MBA from Penn State.