Scott Stoehr enters his seventh season in Ruston, serving as an assitant coach on the Lady Techster sideline. Stoehr was instrumental in the Lady Techsters posting back-to-back winning campaigns in his first two years back in Ruston in 2016-17 and 2017-18. After being picked to finish 12th in the 14-team Conference USA in the preseason coaches’ poll in 2016-17, Stoehr helped guide the Lady Techsters to 18 wins, a fourth-place finish in the regular season standings and the program’s first national postseason berth since 2011 cott toehr during her first year. LA Tech won seven straight C-USA regular season games down the stretch, advanced to the semifinals of the league tournament before falling to tournament champion WKU and then took SMU to overtime in Dallas in the first round of the WNIT. Tech followed that up with a 19-12 record in 2017-18, a third place finish in the C-USA regular season and a second straight berth in the WNIT. It marked the most wins and the highest league finish since 2011-12. The Techsters posted a win over Big Ten foe Penn State, its first over a P5 program since 2011-12. LA Tech also recorded a road win over eventual C-USA regular season champion UAB, and snapped the Rice Owl’s program-record 15-game winning streak. Tech has also seen some impressive wins the past few years, including a road win over a 14-1 UAB in 2018-19 as well as a victory over the Blazers in the first round of the 2020 C-USA Tournament (first time a 12 seed had defeated a 5 seed in the event). Stoehr has been instrumental in the Lady Techsters success, having helped developed 2020-21 Second-Team All-Conference USA selection Keiunna Walker. Stoehr was key in earning an overtime win at Marshall to open Conference USA play, as well as a first round win over the Thundering Herb in the conference tournament. Stoehr came back to Ruston after four seasons at Northwestern State in Natchitoches where he played an integral role in re-establishing a winning culture of accomplishment within NSU women’s basketball. On top of three postseason appearances, including a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances, Stoehr helped develop three 1,000-point scorers, the 2012-13 Southland Conference Freshman of the Year (Janelle Perez), two first-team All-Louisiana selections and a first-team AllSouthland Conference honoree. Equally as important, every player who completed her eligibility at Northwestern State under Stoehr earned her degree from Northwestern State. Stoehr, who received his degree in biology from Nebraska Wesleyan in 1997 and his master’s degree in kinesiology from North Texas in 1999, began his coaching career at Nebraska Wesleyan University and followed that with stints at North Texas, Florida State, Arkansas-Little Rock and Louisiana Tech. In his first position as a Division I coach, Stoehr helped guide North Texas to its most successful time in school history, including three conference division championships, two postseason tournaments and a 43-4 home record over a four-year period. He was a position coach for the 2002 Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year and the league’s Defensive Player of the Year and was responsible for recruiting regions in Oklahoma and Arkansas. At Florida State, he generated and implemented offensive and defensive game plans, coached the guards which included an All-ACC player, and assisted the team to its second highest win total and its second postseason tournament berth in school history at that time as a member of the ACC. He followed that with a stint at Arkansas-Little Rock where he helped recruit the 2005 Sun Belt Conference’s Freshman of the Year, and spent three seasons at Louisiana Tech where he assisted the Lady Techsters in making the NCAA Tournament and Top 25 appearances. Stoehr, a former linebacker at Nebraska Wesleyan, and his wife have a 11-year-old daughter, Aubrey, and a 9-year-old son, Cooper.
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