Mizzou alum Morgan Eye Scott takes helm of William Woods women’s hoops
FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ)
Mizzou women's basketball great and former Hickman girls basketball coach Morgan Eye Scott is officially making the jump head coaching at the collegiate level. On Tuesday, William Woods University announced that Scott will take the reins of the women's basketball program.
The move comes after former head coach Terry Nash resigned from the position at the beginning of April, after four seasons in charge.
Scott will take the helm of the Owls program, after spending the last five years as the girls basketball coach at Hickman High School. In her tenure with the Kewpies, the former Mizzou women's basketball star managed to turn around the program. She took a program that went 21-55 over the course of three seasons and flipped it to a 79-52 over the course of her five years at the helm. Under Scott, Hickman won five and were twice runner-ups in tournament championship and added on three district tournament runner-up finishes, as well.
As a result of her work, the Montrose, Missouri native was named the 2024 Class 6, District 7 Missouri Basketball Coaches Association Co-Coach of the Year, after guiding the Kewpies to its first 20-win season in seven years. Her players also collected 14 all-district honors, 12 all-conference honors and 17 all-tournament honors, in addition to one being named the Central Missouri Activities Conference Player of the Year.
"I cannot wait 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 standards of controlling our attitude, effort, energy and attention to detail. A program that our alumni, community and student-body can be exited and proud of," Scott said in a press release.
William Woods will not be Scott's first coaching stop at the collegiate level, though. She was an assistant coach at Washington University in St. Louis from Oct. 2019 to May 2020. Prior to WashU, she was also an assistant at Southeast Missouri State, where 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.
She also spent some time as a graduate assistant at Mizzou under former Tiger women's basketball coach Robin Pingeton.
However, Scott knows what success looks like at every level, including as a player.
From 2011-2015, she was a standout player at Mizzou, becoming the best 3-point shooter in program history. She tops the record books in 3-pointers made in a career (367), a single-season (112) and a single-game (11). In the 2012-13 campaign, Scott was named the Southeastern Conference Co-Sixth Woman of the Year and finished the year as the NCAA National Statistical Champion for her average of 3.5 triples per game.
"We are so excited to welcome coach Scott and her family to William Woods," Interim Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Casey Wieder said in a press release. "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 in the Heart of America Athletic Conference."
Scott will be joining William Woods, as a new chapter begins, as the Owls make the move to aa new conference.
