Oklahoma City University Women's Basketball

Former NAIA Assistant Coach of the Year Alexis Lawrence took the reins of the Oklahoma City University women's basketball team as head coach in June 2025.   Lawrence was an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she helped coordinate recruiting efforts for the staff, served as the camp director, assisted in film and scouting preparations and helped develop and implement guard workouts. She was with UMKC for two seasons.   From 2019-23, Lawrence served at Northern Illinois University as an assistant coach. In 2022-23, the Huskies were selected to participate in the Women's Basketball Invitational at the end of the season, the team's first postseason bid since 2017.   The 2021-22 NIU team allowed just 69.2 points per game, the fewest points allowed by the program since 2015. As co-defensive coordinator, Lawrence was responsible for implementing defensive drills and strategies. She also was responsible for analyzing in-game statistics and providing adjustments.   While at NIU, Lawrence took on the responsibility of academic liaison and community service/social justice coordinator. Her teams continually increased GPA over each season, earning WBCA Top-25 Academic Honors all four years and Top-10 honors from 2020-23. She also led programming in the form of social justice walks, discussion forums and 19 weeks of social justice initiatives that resulted in 100% of the team becoming registered as voters.   Prior to her time in DeKalb County, Lawrence was an assistant coach at Columbia (Mo.) College from 2017-19. In her two seasons in Columbia, the team posted a 57-11 overall record and a 44-4 record in conference play. In 2018-19, for the first time in program history, the Cougars earned a No. 1 seed in the NAIA Division I National Championships, ranking in the top 10 nationally in three-point percentage, field goal percentage, defensive rebounding and scoring defense. Following the season, Lawrence was named NAIA Assistant Coach of the Year by the WBCA.   The 2017-18 Cougars won the American Midwest Conference regular season and tournament titles, the program's first outright regular season title since 2010-11. The team was consistently among the top of the NAIA Top 25, tallying a 22-game win streak and ranking in the top 10 nationally in scoring margin, three-three-point defense, turnover margin, steals and threes per game.   During her time with the Cougars, she developed and coached three NAIA All-Americans, eight All-Conference selections, four First Team All-Conference selections and two All-Defensive Team selections. She also organized and managed community service, camping, and team study halls.   From 2015-17, Lawrence was a Graduate Assistant at SIUE, while earning a master's degree in kinesiology with a concentration in sports psychology. In 2015-16, the team finished with 18-plus wins for the second-straight year, the program's first back-to-back seasons reaching that mark since joining Division One. Lawrence assisted in creating scouting reports, organized team travel and was the primary contact for the team's Fast Break Booster Club.   Lawrence attended the University of Missouri-St. Louis from 2011-15, earning a bachelor of science degree in business administration with a concentration in finance. She was a team captain in 2014-15, earning Second Team All-Conference and All-Defensive team honors. In 2013-14, she was named team MVP, helping lead the team to its second-ever NCAA DII Tournament appearance. She finished her career in the top 10 in program history in points scored as a senior and career assists, ranking second in single-season three-pointers and career field goals. In 2020, she was named to the program's All-Decade team.   A Bowling Green, Ky. native, Lawrence graduated from Bowling Green HS in 2011. She was a four-year letter winner on the basketball team, earning three All-District and All-Region honors. She set school records for three-pointers in a game and in a season, helping the team to district and regional championships as a senior. She was also a four-year letter winner on the soccer team, earning All-State and All-Region Honors.   Lawrence was a 2020 recipient of the 2020 Missouri Sports Hall of Fame Achievement Award and participated in the "So You Want to Be a Coach" conference at the 2016 NCAA Women's Final Four.  

Tasha Hinex serves as the head coach of the Oklahoma City University competitive pom/dance team. She started coaching OCU in 2009-10 and has led the Stars to eight national championships, including the 2014 NAIA pom/dance title and seven National Dance Alliance crowns (2011, 2013, 2016 (2), 2023, 2024 and 2025).  Hinex grew up dancing in Shawnee, Okla., under the direction of Janet Combs. In high school, she was a member and captain of the pom squad. She is a graduate with her bachelor of fine arts in dance from the University of Central Oklahoma, a past member of Kaleidoscope Dance Company and past member of the UCO pom squad.  She worked 13 years with the National Dance Alliance as a head instructor and choreographer, teaching high school and college pom camps across the United States. NDA has opened numerous doors including judging NDA High School Nationals, NDA All-Star Nationals and many regional competitions. She also had the opportunity to teach and judge the JCDA (Japanese Cheer Dance Association) in Japan. She continues to teach and choreograph for local studios and high schools and is an original company member of R.A.C.E. Dance Company.  

Bryan Volpenhein joined the OCU Athletics Staff as head men's and women's rowing coach in June 2024. In his first season at OCU, the Stars finished with a men's doubles championship in the Dad Vail Regatta and placed sixth in OCU's Men's varsity Four final at the International Rowing Association National Championships. Volpenhein came to OCU after serving as the head coach at the University of Pennsylvania for the men's rowing team from 2019-22. While leading the Quakers,  Volpenhein was the head coach for the San Diego Rowing Club men's varsity program, where he prepared high school athletes for regional and national championships. Volpenhein also spent one year as the technical director for the men's rowing program at the University of San Diego. The Cincinnati, Ohio native has additional experience as head coach for the Oklahoma City National High-Performance Center from 2010-13 and head coach of the Pocock Rowing Center in Seattle from 2008-10. A three-time Olympian who stroked the United States to a gold medal in 2004, Volpenhein arrived at Penn with high-level experience as the United States National Team Coach, where he selected and trained the men's four for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and led three boats to gold medals during international competition. The only two-time US Rowing Male Athlete of the Year, Volpenhein represented the United States in the 2000, 2004, and 2008 Olympic Games and was also a ten-time member of the United States National Team. Volpenhein began his rowing career at Ohio State University where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 2002. Volpenhein went on to earn a Culinary Arts Degree from The Art Institute of Seattle.

Davion Scott joined the Oklahoma City University athletic department in the fall of 2024 as assistant coach of track and field and cross country.   Scott graduated from Emporia State University where he was twice named to the Division II All-Academic Team, served as captain of the hurdle squad for his last three years, and currently ranks seventh all-time in the 400m hurdles at Emporia State.   He has coached eight NAIA outdoor track and field All-Americans.   Scott is a native of Kansas City, Kan.