Lindsay Scarlatelli was named the Director of Women’s Basketball Operations at SMU in the summer of 2018. Her main responsibilities include, but are not limited to, team travel, monitoring the program budget, overseeing equipment, and coordinating the day-to-day operations and schedule of the women’s basketball program.
Prior to joining SMU, Scarlatelli spent the 2017-18 season at Michigan State University, where she was the assistant to head coach, Suzy Merchant. With the Spartans, Scarlatelli’s main responsibilities were creating external video content, graphics for social media, recruiting purposes, and office decor, in addition to extensively breaking down opponent game film, practice film, and defensive self-scouts using SportsCode. With a goal of increasing the program’s reach and brand via social media, some of Scarlatelli’s creative work and initiatives became the most viewed material the program has released to date, including responses from LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. Other responsibilities included running all program and head coach social media accounts, troubleshooting technological issues, monitoring player study tables, creating recruiting materials, end-of-the-year senior highlight videos, and assisting with official and unofficial visits.
Prior to the 2017-18 season, Scarlatelli spent three seasons as the Director of Operations at Miami University. With the RedHawks, Scarlatelli was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the women's basketball program. Additionally, she was in charge of team travel, budget, community service and team building activities, social media and creative graphics content, supervising the student managerial staff, while also assisting with recruiting visits, academic supervision, summer camps and practice planning. In 2017, she helped the program save over $16,000 in areas she was directly responsible for with decision making and spending. In 2016, she organized and executed the team's overseas trip to Italy.
Prior to her time with Miami, Scarlatelli was an assistant at Oakland for one season (2013-14). With the Grizzlies, Scarlatelli worked with the post players and served as the team's recruiting coordinator. She played an instrumental role in building a top-rated recruiting class for Oakland, featuring three players ranked in the top 100 at their position by various publications, including ESPN. Two post players, Bethany Watterworth and Kim Bee, also garnered All-Horizon League honors.
Scarlatelli started her career as a graduate assistant for the Michigan State Spartans from 2010-2012. She was part of the team’s first-ever outright Big Ten Championship in 2011. With the Spartans, she served as the assistant to the recruiting coordinator, the director of the MVP youth ball club consisting of 500 kids, coordinated team practices and shoot arounds, and oversaw the student manager staff. From Michigan State, Scarlatelli spent a season (2012-13) as the director of basketball operations and an assistant coach at UIC. With the Flames, she was promoted to assistant coach in December of 2012. She helped with player development, opponent scouting, academic monitoring and recruiting.
Scarlatelli was a four-year member of the Oakland women's golf team and also was the women's basketball manager from 2006-10, handling many administrative, operational and video coordinator duties. She earned her bachelor's degree in communications from Oakland in 2010 and her master's degree in kinesiology from Michigan State in 2012.
Lindsay is not the only one in her family with a Big Ten Championship ring, as her younger brother, Nick, was a student manager for the Michigan State women’s basketball team and won a Big Ten Championship with the program in 2014.
