Lindsay Scarlatelli joined the Oakland women[apos]s basketball staff as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator on May 1, 2013. Scarlatelli returns to Oakland where she was a student manager for the team from 2007-2010 and also brings coaching and administrative experience from UIC and Michigan State.
Scarlatelli comes to Oakland from UIC where she was hired in August 2012 as the Director of Basketball Operations and was promoted to Assistant Coach in December of 2012. As assistant coach her duties included recruiting, player development and opponent scouting. As the Director of Basketball Operations her responsibilities included coordinating team travel, directed the Regina Miller Coaching Clinic and coordinated team community service projects.
At Michigan State she was a graduate assistant coach with the women[apos]s basketball program from 2010-2012 and was an integral part of the Spartans first-ever Big Ten Championship in 2011. Scarlatelli assisted the coaching staff with day-to-day efforts including, but not limited to, recruiting, scouting and player development and earned her master[apos]s degree in kinesiology.
Prior to her two years with the Spartans, Scarlatelli earned her bachelor[apos]s degree in communications, with a minor in history, from Oakland University in 2010. At Oakland, she was the video coordinator and head manager for the women[apos]s basketball program. The Grizzles claimed the Mid-Continent regular season championship in 2007 and garnered a bid to the 2007 and 2009 postseason WNIT. While assisting the basketball program, Scarlatelli was four-year letterwinner for the varsity golf team where she made the Academic All-Summit League Team in 2008 and a representative of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).
In July 2012 she worked with the US Junior National Championships at numerous events across the country, including the nation[apos]s largest event in Washington D.C., overseeing the college coach check-in table. Scarlatelli has spent the past seven summers developing herself professionally by working summer fundamental and elite basketball camps for Michigan State, Oakland, Saginaw Valley State, Tennessee and Texas.
Her brother, Nick, is a manager for the women[apos]s basketball team at Michigan State.
