Lindy La Rocque (born December 15, 1989) is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the women's basketball team at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).
La Rocque was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. She graduated from Durango High School in Las Vegas in 2008. At Durango, La Rocque played at shooting guard.
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After graduating from Stanford, La Rocque enrolled at the University of Oklahoma in 2013 and served for two seasons as a graduate assistant for Oklahoma Sooners women's basketball under head coach Sherri Coale. Oklahoma appeared in the 2014 and 2015 NCAA Tournaments. La Rocque graduated from Oklahoma in 2015 with a master's degree in adult and higher education.
From 2015 to 2017, La Rocque was an assistant coach under head coach Cameron Newbauer at Belmont, during which Belmont appeared in the 2016 and 2017 NCAA Tournaments.
On March 18, 2020, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) hired La Rocque to be women's basketball head coach, nearly two weeks after the resignation of previous head coach Kathy Olivier.
In 2021, the Mountain West Conference named La Rocque its Coach of the Year in women's basketball after La Rocque's debut season in which UNLV finished 13âÂÂ5 in Mountain West play and second in conference standings.
The 2022âÂÂ23 UNLV team was La Rocque's most successful with a perfect 18âÂÂ0 record in Mountain West regular season games, the first season where UNLV went undefeated in conference play since going 8âÂÂ0 in the PCAA in 1984âÂÂ85.</reF> In mid-February 2023, UNLV was ranked no. 23 in the AP Poll, UNLV's first top 25 ranking in that poll since 1994.</reF>