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Scott Stoehr

  • Title
    Assistant Coach
  • Phone
    (318) 257-5511
Scott Stoehr enters his 10th season in Ruston, serving as an assistant coach on the Lady Techster sideline.

During the 2024-25 season, LA Tech finished with an 18-16 record, advancing to the Great 8 in the WNIT. Stoehr was crucial in the development of CUSA All-Freshman team member Jordan Marshall, who finished the season with the second-most double-doubles in the country by a freshman with 11 and the most by a Lady Techster since the 2013-14 season. He also helped with the development of Isla Airey, who finished the season ranked 34th in the nation with 61 blocks, the third most by a freshman in program history and the 10th most overall in a single season.

The Lady Techsters concluded the 2023-24 season with a 14-19 record, having played against nine NCAA Tournament teams. LA Tech reached the CUSA semifinals before falling to the eventual champion, Middle Tennessee.

Stoehr helped guide the Techsters during the 2022-23 season to a 19-12 record, marking the first back-to-back 19-plus win seasons for the Techsters since 2010 and 2011. Their 12-8 conference record also marked back-to-back double-digit conference wins since Stoehr's first two seasons in Ruston in 2016 and 2017, and the 12 wins marked the most since 2016. The 2022-23 season culminated in an at-large WNIT selection, marking the second time in his tenure that the program has reached back-to-back WNIT fields.

During the 2021-22 season, Stoehr helped guide the Lady Techsters to a Conference USA West Division championship, which earned an automatic bid to the 2022 WNIT. The Techsters also earned their first Conference USA tournament championship appearance after beating UAB and completing an 11-point fourth-quarter comeback over Middle Tennessee. 

After a successful first season in Ruston, Stoehr helped guide Tech to a 19-12 record in the 2017-18 season, a third-place finish in the CUSA regular season, and a second consecutive berth in the WNIT. It marked the most wins and the highest league finish since the 2011-12 season.

The Techsters posted a win over Big Ten foe Penn State, their first over a Power Five (P5) program since the 2011-12 season. LA Tech also recorded a road win over eventual CUSA regular season champion UAB and snapped the Rice Owl's program-record 15-game winning streak.

Stoehr was instrumental in the Lady Techsters' back-to-back winning campaigns in his first two years back in Ruston, 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 during her first year.

LA Tech won seven straight CUSA 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 has also seen some impressive wins over the past few years, including a road victory over a 14-1 UAB team in 2018-19 and a victory over the Blazers in the first round of the 2020 CUSA Tournament (the first time a 12 seed had defeated a five seed in the event).

During his nine seasons at Tech, Stoehr has recruited and developed All-Conference players, including the 2022 Conference USA Preseason Player of the Year, Keiunna Walker, who graduated as the No. 6 scorer in program history. Walker was also a two-time First Team All-Conference USA selection, a Conference USA All-Defensive selection, and a Second Team All-Conference USA selection, and was named to the 2022 Conference USA All-Tournament team. Stoehr has also coached and developed local product Anna Larr Roberson into a First Team All-Conference USA selection, a two-time Second Team All-Conference USA honoree, a Conference USA All-Tournament selection, and a Preseason selection. During the 2023-24 season, Roberson surpassed 900 career rebounds, is the No. 17 all-time scorer in program history, and produced 21 career double-doubles.

Stoehr returned to Ruston after four seasons at Northwestern State in Natchitoches, where he played a pivotal role in re-establishing a winning culture of accomplishment within the NSU women's basketball program.

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 All-Southland 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 period in school history, including three conference division championships, two postseason tournament appearances, and a 43-4 home record over a four-year span.

He was a position coach for the 2002 Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year and the league's Defensive Player of the Year. He was responsible for recruiting players from regions in Oklahoma and Arkansas.

At Florida State, he generated and implemented both offensive and defensive game plans, coached the guards, including an All-ACC player, and helped the team achieve its second-highest win total and its second postseason tournament berth in school history, both as a member of the ACC at that time.

He followed that with a stint at Arkansas-Little Rock, where he helped recruit the 2005 Sun Belt Conference's Freshman of the Year. He spent three seasons at Louisiana Tech, assisting the Lady Techsters in making appearances in the NCAA Tournament and the Top 25.

Stoehr, a former linebacker at Nebraska Wesleyan, and his wife have two children: a daughter named Aubrey and a son named Cooper.