Ervin Monier enters his fifth season in 2014-15 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.
"I'm very excited about Ervin joining our staff," Williams said upon his hire in the summer of 2010. "He is one of the top assistant coaches in the country. Ervin is not only a great recruiter but also an excellent teacher of the game."
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.
"I am full of enthusiasm, excitement and honor to be asked by Coach Williams to help him build the La Salle women's basketball program and to take it to heights it has never been before," Monier said. "I have been fortunate to work with two high character, quality coaches in the past with Dawn Staley (Temple) and Tom Garrick (Rhode Island). Jeff Williams is in that same class."
No stranger to the Atlantic 10 Conference or the city of Philadelphia, Monier was an Staley's 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.
"Jeff is a man of great integrity that is one of the most well-liked, respected coaches in the business," Monier continued. "He knows and respects women's college basketball and understands the demands of the college student-athlete. And he genuinely can coach. He is a proven program builder and I look forward to assisting him in this journey to the top of the Atlantic 10 and Big 5 at such a magnificent university like La Salle."
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.
