Scott Trost is in is 19th season as the head coach at Lewis and is the Flyers all-time winningest men's basketball coach. He has coached the Flyers to five 20+ win seasons, six NCAA Tournament berths; averaging 18 wins a year. During his tenure, the Flyers have appeared in five GLVC Championship games, including back-to-back games in 2016 and 2017, and winning the GLVC title in 2016 and 2021.
His teams have had individual success, as Trost has mentored 27 All-GLVC performers, nine All-Region players, seven GLVC All-Defensive Team selections, eight GLVC All-Tournament honorees, four GLVC Freshmen of the Year, a GLVC Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year, three All-Americans and two GLVC Tournament Most Valuable Players (Max Strus in 2016 and Artese Stapleton 2021). He was named the GLVC and NABC Midwest Region Coach of the Year in 2018-19 after leading the Flyers to their first GLVC Regular Season championship since 2003-04 and a final number one ranking in the NCAA Midwest Region.Â
  He has been named the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association NCAA Division II Coach of the Year six times (2008, '12, '15, '16,'19, '21).
  Prior to arriving at Lewis, Trost enjoyed a highly successful tenure at Illinois Wesleyan, posting a 101-37 (.732) overall record and a 50-20 (.714) mark in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) during his five seasons as the helm. The Titans captured three consecutive CCIW titles (2003-05) and made four successive NCAA Division III Championship tournament appearances (2003-06) under his guidance.
  The 2005-06 Titans were 25-7 and finished third in the nation, beating Amherst 71-68 in the NCAA tournament consolation game after being edged 81-79 by eventual national champion Virginia Wesleyan in the semifinals. Trost led Illinois Wesleyan to the Division III round of 16 in 2003 and 2004.
  Trost was named CCIW Coach of the Year in 2003, 2004 and 2005, and IBCA Division III Coach of the Year four times. He coached two CCIW Most Outstanding Players, Keelan Amelianovich (2004) and Adam Dauksas (2005).
  Trost owns 27 years of experience and a 469-295 (.614) overall record as a head coach. He tallied a 51-49 ledger in four seasons at CCIW member Elmhurst, including a 16-9 mark in his final year (1995-96). The Bluejays’ 10-4 CCIW record that season was the program’s best conference showing up to that point.
  Prior to becoming head coach, Trost served three years as an Elmhurst assistant under Jim Whitesell, whose departure to become Lewis’ head coach in 1992 cleared the way for Trost to take over the top job. In Trost’s final season as assistant coach, the Bluejays were 19-9 - best in program history at the time - and advanced to the second round in their first NCAA Division III Championship tournament appearance.
  Trost left Elmhurst in 1996 to become an assistant coach at the University of Michigan, where he served four seasons in that capacity before being promoted to associate head coach for the 2000-01 campaign. The Wolverines won the 1997 National Invitation Tournament, and the 1998 squad captured the inaugural Big Ten Tournament crown and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Championship tournament.
  Trost began his coaching career as an Illinois Wesleyan graduate assistant in the 1986-87 season. He was an assistant coach at NCAA Division II Minnesota State-Mankato the next two seasons before joining Whitesell’s Elmhurst staff in 1989.
  A native of Appleton, Minn., Trost earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in physical education at the University of Minnesota-Morris in 1985 and a Master of Arts degree at Illinois State University in 1988. Trost serves as a member of the NABC Division II Congress and is on the Board of Directors for the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association (IBCA). Trost resides in Lemont, Ill. He was inducted into the IBCA Hall of Fame in the summer of 2021.
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The Trost File
| Year |
School |
Record |
| 1992-93 |
Elmhurst |
11-14 (.444) |
| 1993-94 |
Elmhurst |
13-12 (.520) |
| 1994-95 |
Elmhurst |
12-13 (.480) |
| 1995-96 |
Elmhurst |
16-9 (.593) |
| 2001-02 |
Ill. Wesleyan |
12-13 (.480) |
| 2002-03 |
Ill. Wesleyan |
22-6 (.786) |
| 2003-04 |
Ill. Wesleyan |
21-7 (.750) |
| 2004-05 |
Ill. Wesleyan |
21-5 (.808) |
| 2005-06 |
Ill. Wesleyan |
25-7 (.781) |
| 2006-07 |
Lewis |
15-13 (.536) |
| 2007-08 |
Lewis |
20-11 (.645) |
| 2008-09 |
Lewis |
16-12 (.571) |
| 2009-10 |
Lewis |
17-12 (.586) |
| 2010-11 |
Lewis |
17-14 (.548) |
| 2011-12 |
Lewis |
17-12 (.586) |
| 2012-13 |
Lewis |
19-9 (.679) |
| 2013-14 |
Lewis |
21-6 (.778) |
| 2014-15 |
Lewis |
22-9 (.710) |
| 2015-16 |
Lewis |
24-9 (.727) |
| 2016-17 |
Lewis |
19-13 (.594) |
| 2017-18 |
Lewis |
15-14 (.517) |
| 2018-19 |
Lewis |
25-6 (.801) |
| 2019-20 |
Lewis |
13-15 (.464) |
| 2020-21 |
Lewis |
14-10 (.583) |
| 2021-22 |
Lewis |
16-11 (.593) |
| 2022-23 |
Lewis    |
8-20 (.286) |
| 2023-24 |
Lewis |
18-13 (.581) |
| Total |
|
469-295 (.614) |
