Victoria Sun

Biography

Victoria Sun begins her first season with the Runnin’ Utes in 2025-26 after joining Alex Jensen’ staff as the director of basketball operations. Sun comes to Salt Lake City after spending the past six years (2019-25) as the business manager for the basketball arm at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. A Hong Kong native that grew up in Southern California, Sun made the move to the sports operation world in 2011 at Eastern Michigan. She would spend three seasons (2011-14) with the Eagles before taking the special assistant to the head coach role at Florida State for a season (2014-15) and then moved on to CSUN (2015-16). Sun spent two seasons (2016-18) at George Washington as the director of operations before joining IMG Academy in 2019. She was also charged by the NCAA to lead the inaugural NCAA College Basketball Academy in 2019. An award-winning sports writer by trade out of college (1997-2011) and longstanding member of the US Basketball Writers Association, Sun’s work has appeared in publications such as the Associated Press, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Riverside Press-Enterprise, Cincinnati Post and Las Vegas Sun. She was also a contributor to Lindy’s preseason college basketball magazine and the Basketball Times. Sun is a 1997 graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She was also member of the women’s tennis team from 1993-95 with the Orange while also serving as a manager for the men’s basketball team under legendary head coach