Scott Stoner enters his second season as an assistant coach with the Stevens Institute of Technology men’s volleyball team in 2008.
In his first season on the staff, Stoner helped guide the Ducks to an overall mark of 21-12 overall record, including an 8-2 record in the NECVA Metro Division and a trip the ECAC Championship game where they lost a five-game match to Hunter College. Stevens also reached the quarterfinals of the NEVCA tournament before falling to Ramapo in a five-game heartbreaker.
A 2007 graduate of Stevens, Stoner was a member of the volleyball team and a three-year captain for the Ducks. As an athlete he has accumulated quite the number of accolades. In 2004, 2006, and 2007 Stoner was a North East Collegiate Volleyball Association all-conference selection. During the 2006 and 2007 seasons, Stoner also was named to the Molten all-tournament team and NECVA all-academic team.
In 2007, Stoner was awarded the ECAC Robbins Scholar Athlete Award for Division III. The award is sponsored by the Cincinnati-based sports surfaces company, which honors the outstanding academic and athletic achievements of student-athletes representing ECAC schools in Division I, II and III. One male and one female athlete from each division are selected based on extraordinary achievements in academics, athletics and community service.
Furthermore, in 2007, Stoner also garnered the honor of being selected to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District at-large first-team in the District II College Division by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). He carried a 3.79 cumulative grade-point average into his final semester at Stevens. Stoner has coached at the annual Tottenville co-ed volleyball clinic that Stevens runs as a team community service project for the past five years.
In his time at Stevens, Stoner accumulated a total of 1,183 kills, 1,063 digs, and 76 assists, while recording an attack percentage of .266. He helped to capture two North East Collegiate Volleyball Association Championships as well as clinching three straight berths in the Molten Division III Men’s Invitational Volleyball Championship.
Stoner graduated from Stevens with a BE in Engineering Management and an ME in Systems Engineering and Architecture. He currently works for UBS Financial Services in Weehawken, N.J. and resides in Wantagh, N.Y.
