Lexi Petersen joined the Saint Mary's coaching staff in 2023 after serving as an assistant at Seattle University from the summer of 2020 to the end of the 2022-23 season. Petersen served one season as the Redhawks' Director of Basketball Operations before being promoted to assistant coach alongside Suzy Barcomb in 2020. Petersen worked with Seattle U shooting guards and prepared player personnel files for opponent scouting reports.
Petersen is a 2016 graduate of the University of Oregon, where she scored 1,226 career points in a school-record 126 games. She played professionally in Greece and Iceland for three years.
The native of Tukwila, Washington, worked as a youth basketball coach in Iceland and helped launch the “Women Ball Too” summer program in 2019. Petersen joined Barcomb’s staff in the summer of 2019 as Director of Basketball Operations.
