Steve Pogue - Women's Basketball Coach - East Carolina University Athletics

Steve Pogue

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
poguest19@ecu.edu
Phone:
252-737-4589

Steve Pogue joined the ECU women’s basketball team as an assistant coach for the 2019-20 season. Pogue had previously been on head coach Kim McNeill’s staff at the University of Hartford.

In Pogue’s first season in Greenville, the Pirates made history on the defensive end. ECU finished second in the country in steals (407), steals per game (13.6) and turnovers forced (24.10) as well as third in turnover margin (+8.13).The 407 steals by ECU were both a school record and both Lashonda Monk (third) and Dominique Claytor (14th) finished in the top-14 of the nation in steals.

Under Pogue’s guidance, Monk put together one of the best individual seasons in ECU history. The junior guard finished the season with 125 steals, breaking both the ECU and the AAC single-season record and finishing third in the NCAA. Monk became the first ECU player to win the AAC Defensive Player of the Year award and was named Second-Team All-AAC. Along with Monk, Tanyiah Thompson also earned postseason honors, becoming a unanimous selection to the AAC All-Rookie team after leading all AAC freshmen in scoring, minutes and steals. It was just the third time that ECU has had multiple postseason honorees since moving to the AAC in 2014.

While working with the team’s post players, Pogue also helped develop sophomore Tiara Chambers, who was one of the most improved players in the AAC. Chambers finished the year with 32 block shots, including 25 rejections in conference games, which placed her third in the AAC. Chambers also narrowly missed her first career double-double in the regular-season finale at Cincinnati, finishing with a career-high 14 points and nine rebounds.

Pogue joined McNeill’s staff at the University of Hartford prior to the 2017-18 season. During both of his years there, Pogue helped the Hawks improve their win total in each season, culminating in a 23-11 mark in 2018-19 and the program’s first appearance in the WNIT since 2013. The 23 wins were the highest total for a Hartford squad since the 2009-10 season.

Prior to arriving in Hartford, Pogue was on staff at Bridgeport. In his three seasons there, Pogue helped the Purple Knights increase their win total each year he was on staff. During the 2016-17 season, Bridgeport won 15 games, the most since the 2012-13 campaign. In addition to his coaching duties, he served as a Game Day Operations Assistant for the Purple Knights.

Before landing at Bridgeport, Pogue worked as an assistant women’s basketball coach for four seasons at Nyack College, his alma mater. As a standout, four-year member of the Nyack’s men’s basketball team, he helped the Warriors reach the 2010 NCAA National Championship game.

A member of the WBCA who attended the Center of Coaching Excellence in 2016, Pogue graduated in 2010 from Nyack with a degree in business administration with a concentration in sports management.