Women Executives of the MIAAA WCA

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Coach Stahlhuth  is now the High School Athletic Director/Girl's & Boy's Tennis Coach at Bayless High School.   She started her role as Assistant Athletic Director  at Bayless HS in 2020.  Coach Stahlhuth previously coached at Washington University in St. Louis for  15 years.  She was a tennis teaching professional for fourteen years at the Missouri Athletic Club-West/Town & Country Racquet Club for 14 years. She has been a USPTA certified tennis instructor for 30 years. Coach Stahlhuth played at Indiana University on an athletic scholarship in 1985-1989. Stahlhuth was a two-time All-American (1987 & 1989). She was Big Ten Player of the year twice and a four-time conference selection in the Big Ten. Stahlhuth was inducted into Indiana University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002. She graduated from Indiana University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting.

Stahlhuth earned her Master’s in Management & Leadership from Webster University in 200

 Meredith Brick is entering her 5th year as a teacher and coach in Sedalia, Missouri serving as Smith-Cotton High School girls soccer head coach and boys soccer goalkeeper coach. She serves Smith-Cotton Junior High students as an 8th grade science teacher. 

She previously coached collegiately as a goalkeeper coach at Lindenwood University in Belleville, Illinois and played soccer collegiately at Central Methodist University in Fayette, Missouri.

In addition to teaching and coaching for S-C, she runs a human performance business with soccer player development being the scope of the services Brick Wall Training provides athletes. As a Certified Mindset Coach, she teaches invaluable mindset tools and techniques to help athletes control their mindset to increase their performance on the field.

Coach Brick was attracted to the coaching field to become the female coach she wish she had when she was a young athlete. She strives to inspire and empower the next generation of woman warriors to find their power within through the challenges that sport and life provide.

 Trish Marsh is entering her 27th year of coaching basketball in the state of Missouri and will be in her first year serving as an assistant coach at Rock Bridge High School. Trish has coached at multiple levels experiencing success at each one. Marsh served as an assistant girls basketball coach at Glendale from 1994 to 1999 on Nyla Milleson’s staff winning a Class 4 State basketball championship in 1996. Marsh went with Milleson to help start the women’s basketball program at Drury University in 1999.  

While at Drury, Marsh helped construct a program that won five conference titles and made five straight NCAA Division II Tournament appearances. The Lady Panthers made four trips to the Sweet 16 in that period, highlighted by a national runner-up finish in 2003-04 when Drury finished 36-2. Over a three-year period between the 2003-04 and 2005-06 seasons, DU posted the top winning percentage in all of Division II women’s basketball, going 95-7 over that span.

Marsh made the jump to the Division I coaching level in 2007 moving across town to Missouri State. Marsh spent six years as the associate head coach at Missouri State where she helped the Lady Bears to three WNIT appearances. While at MSU, the Lady Bears went 105-87 (.547), including three WNIT appearances and were the 2012 Missouri Valley Conference regular-season champions. In six seasons, Marsh mentored 21 All-MVC selections, 13 All-MVC academic honorees, two MVC Newcomer of the Year winners, two MVC Freshman of the Year recipients and one MVC Player of the Year.

Trish returned to her high school roots after leaving Missouri State in 2013. She served as an assistant at Central and Parkview High School while teaching at Pipkin Middle School. Marsh spent one season as the head coach at Aurora High School before returning to the Lady Falcon program where she has served as the head coach the last four years. 

A native of Marshfield, Missouri, the former Trish Van Diggelen was the Lady Jay’s basketball most valuable player in 1987 and 1988. As a senior in 1988, Marsh helped lead Marshfield High to a perfect 32-0 mark and Class 3A state title. Marsh went on to a standout four-year basketball career at Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly University of Missouri-Rolla), where she broke virtually every three-point shooting record in school history and led the nation in Division II three-point percentage as a freshman. A 2011 inductee into the Missouri S&T Athletics Hall of Fame, she remains the Miner’s sixth all-time leading scorer with 1,125 points.

Marsh, who overcame a year-long battle with breast cancer in 2006-07, received the Missouri Valley Conference[apos]s Most Courageous Award in February 2011. The honor is bestowed upon past or present MVC student-athletes, coaches and university administrators who demonstrate unusual courage in the face of personal illness, adversity or tragedy and whose behaviors reflect honor on the institution or the conference. She was also honored by the Springfield Women’]s Intersport Network as the organization’s 2009 Courage Award winner in recognition of her triumph over breast cancer and her continued influence as a role model in women’s athletics.

Marsh and her husband, Marty, have two children, Mitchell and Madison.

Entering her 17th year at Rock Bridge, Jill Nagel has a career record of 357-96 and was a 2019 MBCA Hall of

Fame inductee. The Bruins have claimed 11 District Championships in the past 14 years, reached the Class 5

Final Four seven times—claiming five State Championships, one third-place and the 2020 group was unable to

complete due to Covid-19. Thirty players have gone on to play collegiately, with two being named Missouri

Gatorade Player of the Year and one named a prestigious McDonald’s All-American. Prior to Rock Bridge, Nagel

spent six years coaching collegiately, the last three as Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator at Central

Michigan University.

•Overall head coaching record: 357-96 (16 years) 2005-Present

•Missouri Class 5 State Champions – 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

∙First Class 5 girls or boys team to four peat and only fourth girls team ever to four peat

•Inducted to the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame - 2019

•Named 2014 WBCA/Russell Athletic District 5 High School Coach of the Year – candidate for National Coach of the Year

•Class 5 Richard Fairchild Coach of the Year-MO Basketball Coaches Assoc. (MBCA)–2008, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2020

 Nora Brooks

Coach Brooks is a former two sports high school at Ursuline Academy in St. Louis, MO.  Nora continued her student athlete career at Spring Hill College in Mobile, AL. When her playing days ended due to injury she found another way to live out her passion for the game-coaching. When she is not on the sidelines coaching, Nora works at Eco-Fit Equipment, a company that sells and services fitness equipment.
 

  Coach Haskell is entering her 19th year as head coach of the Hickman Kewpie Softball team and her 21st year of teaching Physical Education at Hickman. Coach Haskell attended Truman State University and received her undergraduate degree in Health Sciences and then received her Master’s in Education from Central Methodist University. She was an assistant for the Girls basketball program for 18 years as well.  Coach Haskell has coached with her husband (Nick Haskell) for 18 years and they have 2 active boys in middle school.  Coach Haskell has served on the MSHSAA Softball committee for 3 years and has just recently resigned as the Class 5 VP in the Missouri Fastpitch Coaches Association.
 

Shelby Hoffman is entering her 9th year of teaching Physical Education and 7th year as the Head Volleyball Coach at Lee’s Summit North. She and her husband, also a teacher/coach, reside in Lee’s Summit, MO with their three beautiful children. Shelby was named one of the 2016 AVCA Thirty Under 30 High School Coaches and has been recognized within the Community of Coaches - Coach of the Year Class of 2020. She is the building-wide Wellbeing Coordinator at LSN and an active sponsor for both the student Mentoring Program and Bronco SMART (what is this??). Shelby is passionate about the work of female coaches within female programs and the inclusion of all persons in athletic ventures! 

  Debby Watson’s career began 48 years ago on the cusp of Title IX.  The passage of this landmark decision opened opportunities for Debby as she began her career.

Debby was one of the founders of the Metro Women’s Athletic Association in St. Louis.  This league focused on girls and women’s sports and empowering female coaching to LEAD the way.

As a field hockey coach and basketball coach Debby opened camps, ran leagues, and in 2006 she earned her 500th field hockey victory and became one of only five coaches to earn that title.

In 2007 Debby stepped away from athletics to start a new school in the St. Louis area.  She continue to coach field hockey ( 48th year) and Debby remains involved with girls athletics by working to empower young female coaches to become the role models today’s young athletes need.