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Trish Betthauser

Trish Betthauser

Trish Betthauser joined the Forester coaching staff in 2025 and serves as an assistant coach for the women's golf and basketball programs.

Betthauser spent the last 16 years as the director of athletics at A.E. Stevenson High School in nearby Lincolnshire, Illinois. Prior to filling that role she taught chemistry at the school and was also the head girls basketball coach for three years after one as an assistant. Betthauser's time at Stevenson also includes two years as a chemistry teacher and assistant girls basketball coach in the mid-1990s.

Her coaching career began as a graduate assistant women's basketball coach at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in 1992-93 and continued with a year as a student teacher and the head girls basketball coach at Hilbert High School in Wisconsin the following year. After her first two years at Stevenson, she spent four seasons as an assistant with the women's basketball program at the University of Evansville and five as the associate head coach at Indiana University. She also served as the recruiting coordinator at both universities.

Betthauser earned her bachelor's degree in education (chemistry and mathematics) and master's in educational leadership from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. She is currently pursuing an additional master's degree in sports leadership from Concordia University Chicago.