Nancy Schultz Vitangeli first joined the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Board of Governors in 1998 and became a Governor's Associate in 2006. She returned to the board in 2019.

Schultz Vitangeli received the Hall of Fame's Order of Merit award in 2018 and received the Lifetime Service to Wrestling award from the California Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2013.

The widow of Dave Schultz, a Distinguished Member inducted in 1997, she helped create the Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award, which is presented annually by the Hall of Fame to top high school wrestlers based on wrestling, scholastic achievement and citizenship, in 1996.

Following Dave’s death, Schultz Vitangeli founded the Dave Schultz Wrestling Club which sponsored 20 displaced athletes from Team Foxcatcher, providing them with training and coaching resources through the 1996 Olympics. The Dave Schultz Wrestling Club continued until 2005 and trained athletes in men’s and women’s freestyle and Greco-Roman, including Olympic gold medalists and Distinguished Members Kurt Angle and Brandon Slay, Olympic bronze medalist Patricia Miranda, and two-time NCAA Champion, World Champion and Distinguished Member Stephen Neal.

She is a partner at RUDIS, a sports apparel company dedicated to the sport of wrestling and a preferred apparel provider for the Hall of Fame, while also serving as an honorary board member for USA Wrestling.

Schultz Vitangeli served as executive producer for Team Foxcatcher, an Emmy Award nominated documentary that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and became one of Netflix’s most popular selections, and was a consultant on the Oscar nominated major motion picture Foxcatcher starring Mark Ruffalo, Channing Tatum and Steve Carrell.

She was named Woman of the Year by USA Wrestling in 1998 and was co-chair of USA Wrestling’s Foundation Gala in 2016.