Morgan Scott has been named the 13th William Woods University women’s basketball coach as the Owls prepare for their first season in the Heart of America Athletic Conference, announced WWU Interim Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Casey Wieder Tuesday. Scott takes the reins from Terry Nash, who recently resigned from the position.
“We are so excited to welcome coach Scott and her family to William Woods!” Wieder stated. “She made it clear from the beginning that she has a passion for player development and specifically at the collegiate level. She connected with the players during the interview process, and I can’t wait to see what this team does in 2025-26 as we step into the Heart of America Athletic Conference.”
“I am extremely honored to be named the next head women’s basketball coach at William Woods University,” Scott said. “I cannot wait to get to work and to help guide our young women. We will strive to be great representatives of our university on the court, in the classroom and in our community. I am committed to building a program created through our standards of controlling our attitude, effort, energy and attention to detail. A program that our alumni, community and student body can be excited and proud of.
“I want to thank President Romaine Seguin and Interim Athletic Director Casey Wieder for their support and guidance through this process and for giving me this opportunity.
“Go Owls!”
Spending the last five seasons at Hickman High School in Columbia as its head girls basketball coach, Scott brings a great knowledge of mid-Missouri hoops to The Woods. During her tenure in charge of the Kewpies, Scott established a positive culture where hard work and strong relationships were the heart of their sisterhood. The successes of Scott’s Hickman team were attributed to upholding its standards of controlling its attitude, effort, energy and attention to detail.
The culture and attitude Scott instilled led to her reviving the Kewpies. Hickman went from a 21-55 record over the three years prior to her tenure to a five-year record of 79-52 under Scott’s leadership. Additionally, under Scott, the Kewpies won five and were twice runner-ups in tournament championships and had three district tournament runner-up finishes.
Scott was named the 2024 Class 6 District 7 Missouri Basketball Coaches Association (MBCA) Co-Coach of the Year, guiding Hickman to its first 20-win season in seven years. Her players were also rewarded for their performances as Scott’s Kewpies collected 14 all-district, 12 all-conference and 17 all-tournament honors, and the 2024 Central Missouri Activities Conference (CMAC) Player of the Year.
Playing a significant role in helping Hickman’s girls basketball players to those accolades, Scott carried it forward in the recruitment process, with 11 Kewpies committing to compete at the collegiate level. Along with that, Scott hosted annual summer camps, shooting clinics for Columbia youth and a 25-plus team high school shootout.
On top of coaching, mentoring and administering basketball in Central Missouri, Scott has experience with managing the communication and financial side of the sport, creating social media pieces to highlight her players and tell Hickman girls basketball’s story and managing team budget and hosting fundraising events to double the program’s resources for travel, gear, meals and equipment.
While coaching Hickman, Scott spent the past five years as a business and sports psychology teacher at Columbia high schools, Hickman, Rock Bridge and Battle. She exhibited flexibility and effective communication with a diverse group of students in the classroom. Scott also maintained a positive environment, fostering learning for all students and creating an interactive classroom while achieving learning objectives.
Scott wrote, edited and released, on May 10, 2019, a book titled “The Eye In Team: Cinderella Wore Sneakers,” taking readers through the highs and lows of her basketball journey and how she made her dreams come true. To help promote and sell the book, Scott created an interactive website to enhance the reader’s experience, and to this day gives speeches at numerous schools and Fellowship of Christian Athletes events to inspire young individuals.
Soon after Scott released her book, she became an assistant coach at NCAA Division III Washington University women’s basketball in St. Louis. The coaching position she held before Hickman, Scott, was with the Bears from October 2019 to May 2020. She directed team-building exercises to enhance WashU’s family culture, instructed players on adjustments during drills to optimize performance and analyzed opponents’ personnel for scouting reports utilizing film.
Prior to WashU, Scott was the women’s basketball assistant coach at NCAA Division I Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau. She coached the 2017 Ohio Valley Conference Freshman of the Year, OVC Defensive Player of the Year and a first-team All-OVC honoree in 2018. Duties for Scott’s job included creating and instructing on court skill development for guard players, mentoring student-athletes on time management skills and playing a vital role in developing scouting reports of opponents to prepare the Redhawks for success.
Putting her feet into the water in her coaching path at the premier women’s college basketball program in Missouri, NCAA Division I University of Missouri in Columbia, Scott was the Tigers’ graduate assistant from June 2015 to May 2017. She helped MU’s staff guide the team to back-to-back 20-plus win seasons and back-to-back NCAA Tournament berths, assisted with video editing, player development, day-to-day operations for the basketball program, helped with organization of events, travel arrangements and basketball camps and created recruiting/social media pieces to be used for mailouts and media outlets.
That tremendous opportunity at Mizzou came after Scott’s playing career there from June 2011 to May 2015. The Tigers’ team captain, she’s undoubtedly the best 3-point shooter in MU history, topping the program’s record book in 3-pointers made, career (367; 2011-15), single-season (112; 2012-13) and single-game (11; versus Auburn University Jan. 6, 2013, in Columbia). In 2012-13, Scott was named Southeastern Conference Co-Sixth Woman of the Year and finished the season as the NCAA National Statistical Champion for her 3.5 treys per game.
Scott earned her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis in marketing in May 2015 and Master of Education in Educational, School and Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in positive coaching in May 2017, both from the University of Missouri.
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