Staff Directory

Ali Hoesly

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Executive Assistant to the Head Coach
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Ali Hoesly joined the Duke women’s basketball staff as the Executive Assistant to Head Coach Kara Lawson in 2025. Hoesly, a native of Summit, New Jersey, came to Duke following two years as the Director of Basketball Operations for the Rutgers women’s basketball program.

A 2016 Rutgers graduate, Hoesly is the point person for Lawson, providing support in a bevy of areas, including recruiting and alumni and donor relations. She is instrumental in the daily organization of Lawson’s busy calendar and that of Duke women’s basketball program. Additionally, Hoesly is a key cog in the program’s mission of developing and maintaining a positive presence in the local community.

A veteran in Duke women’s basketball administration, Hoesly handles gameday organization as well as alumni engagement. In the summer, Hoesly also is instrumental in the growth of the Kara Lawson Basketball Camps.

At Rutgers, Hoesly assisted the head coach in the day-to-day operations of the program including recruiting, team travel, game day organization and practice operations. She also led multiple game day operations efforts including the day’s schedule, managing shootarounds for both home and away teams.

Prior to returning to Rutgers for a second stint, Hoesly completed a four-year stint as the director of operations with Pittsburgh women's basketball, where she oversaw day-to-day operations of the program, including logistics of team practices, meals and meetings. She was responsible for team travel while also supervising the Pitt student-manager team.

Prior to Pittsburgh, Hoesly spent two seasons at Florida State. At FSU, Hoesly’s teams reached the NCAA Tournament Elite 8 in the 2016-2017 season and the second round of the tournament during the 2017-2018 season.
Hoesly served as executive assistant to the head coach and director of recruiting operations for Seminoles head coach Sue Semrau in 2017-18, after working in the role of assistant director of basketball operations from 2016-17.

Under Hoesly’s direction, Florida State signed the No. 4 recruiting class in the nation (No. 1 in the ACC) for 2018.

Hoesly was the head student manager for the women's basketball program at Rutgers from 2014-2016 for Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame coach C. Vivian Stringer. She regulated daily team operations for the director of basketball operations, coaching staff and players while supervising and recruiting student managers and practice players for each season. Her duties also included organizing logistics of travel, game day assignments, official recruiting visits and summer camp. Her efforts earned her the distinction of being named the program's "Manager of the Year" in 2014-15.

During that same 2014-15 campaign, Hoesly saw the program reach the NCAA Tournament second round and then participate in the WNIT to end the 2015-2016 slate. During her undergraduate career at Rutgers, expanded her knowledge base by working as an operations intern for the WNBA's Washington Mystics from May to September of 2015.

Hoesly earned her bachelor's degree from Rutgers in 2016 in exercise science and sports studies and a minor in criminology.