Katie Ehlen begins her first season as an assistant coach at UW-La Crosse in 2015-16. A two-year letter winner for the Eagles, Ehlen started 50 of 51 games at UWL. She started 25 of 26 contests in 2011-12, averaging 7.2 points and team-leading 7.0 rebounds per game. After missing the 2012-13 season due to injury, Ehlen started all 25 games in 2013-14 and was named to the All-Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Sportsmanship Team. She averaged 5.6 points and 5.9 in 2013-14.
Ehlen earned her bachelor’s degree in sport management at UWL in 2014. She is currently pursuing her degree in the kinesiology and recreation master’s program: sport management at Illinois State University. Ehlen plans on graduating from ISU in May 2016.
Prior to playing at UWL, Ehlen saw action in 18 games at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2009-10.
She has worked at numerous basketball camps, including the Marlene Stollings’ Basketball Camp at the University of Minnesota, the Lil Eagles Camp at UWL and Hoops For All at Viterbo (Wis.) University. Ehlen also served as an instructor for the Cambridge (Wis.) High School Girls’ Basketball Camp and the Wesley Matthews Skills Academy.
Ehlen earned four letters in basketball, three in track & field and one in volleyball at Cambridge High School. She was an honorable mention all-state selection in basketball her junior season and a Dane County First Team choice as a sophomore, junior and senior. The Capital Conference-South Player of the Year her junior year, Ehlen scored over 1,000 career-points at Cambridge (fourth in school history). She was a first team all-conference selection as a sophomore, junior and senior and was named the Jefferson County Union Player of the Year as a junior and senior. Ehlen helped lead Cambridge to three regional championships and a pair of conference titles.
