Lauren Stodola begins her first season as an assistant coach in the 2018-19 season and enters her fifth year on the NKU women's basketball stafff.
Stodola spent her last four years on the NKU bench, first as a graduate assistant before assuming the role of NKU's director of basketball operations, with duties that included recruiting efforts, coordinating team travel, budget planning for team apparel and equipment, practice planning, and creating scouting reports and game plans for NKU's competition.
Stodola got her start in collegiate athletics at her alma mater, Grand Valley State, spending time on the game and event operations staff before serving as an intern to GVSU’s senior woman administrator. She then made a stop at Minnesota Duluth as a graduate assistant for the women’s basketball team, handling video coordination, recruiting efforts, skill development sessions and scouting reports.
As a student-athlete, Stodola helped lead the Lakers to an NCAA tournament berth in the 2010-11 season and was a 2012-13 preseason All-GLIAC honoree before a career-ending injury. She earned All-GLIAC Academic Excellence in her final three seasons and was selected to the 2013 WBCA “So You Want To Be A Coach” program.
Stodola earned a B.S. in Sport Management from GVSU in 2013, graduating cum laude, and finished her postgraduate studies at NKU in 2016 with an M.A. in Integrated Studies, emphasizing in communications and psychology.
