Chelsea Stoltenberg resigns as Bemidji State's head coach
· Yahoo Sports
Mar. 23—BEMIDJI — Bemidji State will have a new women's basketball coach to start the 2026-27 season.
Visit casino-promo.biz for more information.
After 11 seasons at the helm, Chelsea (DeVille) Stoltenberg resigned from her position as the Beavers' head coach last week. BSU told the Pioneer that the school has already started its "national search" for Stoltenberg's replacement.
Stoltenberg is staying involved with Bemidji State athletics as a senior women's administrator.
Hired in June 2015 as the program's 10th head coach, Stoltenberg posted a record of 85-197. She went 56-175 against NSIC teams in 11 seasons.
In the 2018-19 season, Stoltenberg took BSU to the second round of the NSIC Tournament for the first time since 2003-04, upsetting top-seeded Concordia-St. Paul by a score of 73-70 on the road.
In 2020-21, Stoltenberg was honored as the NSIC North Division Coach of the Year, finishing with a 10-6 record in the COVID-19-shortened season. The Beavers went 8-4 in NSIC play and beat CSP again to clinch a semifinal berth for the first time since 2003-04. It was Bemidji State's first winning season since 1995-96.
Despite the limited games in the 2020-21 season, BSU reached its highest conference win total since the 2007-08 season and won seven straight NSIC games. The Beavers snapped double-digit losing streaks against Minnesota State (11) and Minnesota State Moorhead (17) that season.
The following season, Bemidji State went 14-13 and made it to the second round in the conference tournament. It marked the first time in program history that the Beavers played in back-to-back NSIC Tournaments.
In her 11 seasons at BSU, Stoltenberg coached Aimee Pelzer, Rachel Heittola, Brooklyn Bachmann, Trinity (Myer) Yoder, Alyssa Hill, and Kassandra Caron, all of whom earned All-NSIC nods. Rumer Flatness also won the NSIC Elite 18 Awards under Stoltenberg in 2022.
Stoltenberg was an assistant coach at the University of Sioux Falls from 2010 to 2015. She started as a graduate assistant with the Cougars in 2009.
Stoltenberg played women's basketball for Augustana. A native of Watertown, South Dakota, Stoltenberg earned North Central Conference Freshman of the Year laurels in 2006 before graduating in 2009.