Lincoln University of Missouri Athletics

Addae Houston, a 17-year coaching veteran with strong ties to the state of Missouri, was named the head coach of the Lincoln women's basketball team in 2024 and is in his first season with the program.
 
Houston comes to Lincoln from NCAA Division I institution Northwestern State, where he helped the program record a .714 home winning percentage, the team’s best since 2016-17. Houston’s leadership helped NSU achieve its most Southland Conference victories in the past seven seasons and qualify for the conference championship tournament for the third-straight year.
 
Houston began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at his alma mater, Northwest Missouri State University, from 2007-09. In 2008, Houston was a part of the staff that guided the Bearcats to the MIAA Tournament Championship and an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. In 2010, Houston was elevated to the position of assistant women’s basketball coach, where he led the Bearcats to both the MIAA regular season and tournament titles in 2011. That season, Northwest Missouri won the Division II South Regional and advanced to the Elite Eight.
 
In 2013, Houston became the head women’s basketball coach at Southwestern Community College, where he worked with nine all-conference selections and 33 all-academic honorees. In the first season under Houston’s direction, the Spartans broke a 38-game losing streak. The team’s success only grew from there, culminating in Southwestern Community College recording its first postseason win in more than a decade in 2017.
 
Following his time at SWCC, Houston returned to Northwest Missouri to serve as its assistant women’s basketball coach from 2018-22. In his final season at NWMSU, the Bearcats ranked second in the MIAA in scoring defense, allowing just 56.7 points per contest. Northwest Missouri also held opponents to just 87 three-pointers all year, the fewest in the league, and finished second in three-point defense (.260). The 2021-22 Bearcat women’s basketball program recorded a team grade point average of 3.806, the fourth-highest in the entire country.
 
Houston graduated from Northwest Missouri in 2007 with a bachelor of science degree in social science education and later earned a master’s degree from NWMSU in health and physical education in 2010. He also holds an associates of arts degree from Eastfield Junior College.