Lewis-Clark State College Athletics

LaToya Harris-Alexander enters her sixth year as the head coach at Lewis-Clark State College looking to help the Warriors return to the top of the Frontier Conference after falling just short the past two seasons.

In 2015, Harris-Alexander led the Warriors to a 21-12 record, including an 8-4 mark in conference play and a 12-0 record inside the friendly confines of the Activity Center.

She is a former Frontier Conference Coach of the Year winner (2011) and has a 98-50 overall record (54-16 FC) in her LCSC coaching career. Sixteen of her players have earned all-conference honors and 34 have earned all-conference academic honors.

Harris was a standout player at Washington State University from 1999-2002. During her freshman season, WSU’s graduate assistant coach was Jen Greeny (neé Stinson), who Harris replaced at the Warrior helm. Greeny is now head coach at WSU.

Prior to LCSC, Harris-Alexander had been head volleyball coach at Sam Barlow High School in Gresham, Ore., since 2006 and also had been coach of the Alpine Volleyball Club team since 2007. She came highly recommended, by both Greeny and her old coach at WSU, Cindy Fredrick.

In her five years at Sam Barlow, Harris-Alexander has led the team to a 55-28 mark in conference play with second-place finishes in each of the past two seasons. The team made the playoffs all five seasons and advanced to the Oregon state tournament twice where it finished seventh in 2008 and again in ’09.

During the five years, she had players earn 10 first-team all-conference honors, four second-team honors, and 18 receive honorable mention selection. Her players have gone on to sign at one NCAA Division I school, four at NCAA D-II, two at NCAA Division III, one at the NAIA, and four at community colleges.

Harris-Alexander was a standout volleyball, basketball and softball player at Parkrose High School in Portland where she earned 12 letters and was a starter in all three sports for four seasons. She was the KATU Athlete of the Week during her senior year in an area that covered both Washington and Oregon prep athletes and also was the TV station’s Athlete of the Year for that season. Parkrose retired her high school volleyball jersey that season and the jersey was re-retired in 2010 with a new banner.

She signed to play volleyball at WSU where she was a starter all four seasons and earned All-Freshman Pac-10 Conference honors her first season and first-team All-Pac-10 her final three seasons. She also was the team MVP her sophomore and senior seasons and earned Pac-10 Player of the Week both seasons as well.

She was named the MVP at seven tournaments during her Cougar career, including the Las Vegas Invitational (2001), Cougar Challenge (2000-02), Fresno State Invitational (2001), Alaska Invitational (2002), and San Francisco Invitational (2002).

Harris-Alexander also helped WSU to the NCAA tournament her final three seasons with an Elite Eight appearance in 2002.

She became the third player in WSU history to record at least 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs during her career and finished fourth in school history in both categories. She also held the record for most career service aces with 143.

While at WSU, she also competed in track for one season as a high jumper.

Following her playing career, she served as an undergraduate assistant coach for Fredrick at WSU in the 2003 season, and then became head coach at San Leandro High in California for two seasons before taking over at Sam Barlow.

Harris-Alexander has a pair Bachelor of Arts degrees in Humanities with an emphasis in Communication and in Women’s Studies with a minor in Sport Management.

Harris-Alexander and her husband Renaldo Alexander Sr., have two children - son Renaldo Alexander Jr. and daughter Faith Alexander.