Assistant Coach Ervin Monier is entering his fifth Season with the Lady Bulldogs, served as interim Head Coach to complete the 2021-22 season. Prior to coming to SC State, Monier was an assistant coach at Rutgers University.
Ervin Monier spent five seasons as the associate head coach at La Salle. As Head Coach Jeff Williams' top assistant since Williams took over the program in 2010-11, Monier has helped guide four Atlantic 10 All-Conference honorees, three Atlantic 10 All-Rookie Team picks, four Philadelphia Big 5 First Team selections and a Big 5 Second Team pick.
Monier assisted on three Atlantic 10 Championship qualifying teams, including back-to-back runs in 2011 and 2012. Under his tutelage, the 2013-14 squad really helped propel the program in the right direction as the squad posted the most Atlantic 10 wins (9) since the 1996-97 season and knocked off three of the league's top six seeds en route to a No. 7 seed in the Atlantic 10 Championship. La Salle also topped all four WNIT- qualifying teams throughout the course of league play in 2013-14, while posting league bests in scoring defense, field goal percent defense and three-point field goal percent defense.
Prior to La Salle, Monier spent six seasons in the same role at a pair of schools. In 2009-10, he coached alongside Southern California head coach Michael Cooper and five years prior (2004-09) he was the associate head coach at Rhode Island.
At USC, Monier helped the Trojans to its best finish in the Pac 10 since the 2004-05 season with a 12-6 record, a three-seed in the conference tournament and a semifinal appearance. Overall, the team posted a 19-12 record, the most wins in four years, and knocked off four NCAA tournament-bound teams. His last recruiting class was ranked seventh nationally by ESPN.
Monier was an assistant on North Broad Street for four seasons (2000-04), helping the Owls to a pair of Atlantic 10 titles and three postseason appearances, including NCAA berths in 2002 and 2004. At Temple, he recruited a pair of WNBA first round picks in Candice Dupree and Kamesha Hairston.
Monier began his coaching career as an assistant at Hawthorne (CA) High for six years (1985-91), then moved to Los Angeles (CA) Southwest College for five seasons (1991-96). He was an assistant at Washington Prep High in Los Angeles in 1998-99, then at Chadwick High on the Palos Verdes Peninsula during the 1999-00 season. He also taught at the middle school and high school levels in the Los Angeles Unified School District during that time.
