BATON ROUGE — LSU men’s basketball coach Trent Johnson has his staff in place for his first season as head coach of the Tigers.
Assisting Johnson on the floor this season will be Brent Scott, Donny Guerinoni and Keith Richard. Chris Bobel will serve as director of basketball operations and Juan Pablo Reggiardo will join the LSU program as strength and conditioning coach.
Scott comes to LSU after a season as assistant coach at Rice University. Scott before that spent 14 seasons playing professional basketball in Europe. Scott, a native of Lansing, Mich., played his collegiate ball at Rice where he finished his career as the school’s all-time leading scorer (1,906 points) and 1, 049 rebounds. He presently ranks second in both categories. He was a three-time All-Southwest Conference selection (1991, 1992, 1993).
Scott played on sixteen professional teams in eight professional leagues in five countries during his pro career. Included in his career are two stops in the USBL and a season with the Indiana Pacers of the NBA. He played in Spain in 2000 with Real Madrid as the team captured the Spanish National Championship.
Guerinoni comes to LSU after four years with Coach Johnson at Stanford, two in a basketball operations role and two as an assistant coach for The Cardinal. He has a long history with the new LSU head coach as he was Johnson’s first recruit at Nevada. Prior to Stanford, Guerinoni served for two years as an assistant coach at his junior college alma mater, West Valley.
Guerinoni is a native of Sebastopol, Calif., and was recognized as a Western Athletic Conference All-Academic selection and was the top three-point shooter for the Wolf Pack.
Richard returns to coaching in his home town after a nine-year stint as the head coach at Louisiana Tech University. Richard attended Redemptorist High School, where he was a three-year starter and earned first-team All-State honors his last two seasons. During his sophomore season, Redemptorist reached the semifinals of the state tournament before winning back-to-back titles his junior and senior years. He earned his bachelor’s degree in 1982 and his master’s in 1986 from Louisiana-Monroe. He was a part of ULM’s first NCAA Tournament appearance in 1982.
After spending two seasons as a graduate assistant at ULM, he joined the Marshall staff for three seasons before joining Louisiana Tech in 1994. He won 150 games in his nine seasons as the head coach at Tech (1999-07) winning 19 games in 1999, 21 games in 2000, 22 games in 2002 and 20 games in 2006 taking the team to the Sun Belt title in 1999 and the NIT in 2002 and 2006.
Bobel moves into the basketball operations spot after serving in the video coordinator spot during the 2007-08 season. Bobel played for Johnson as a walk-on in 2007 and graduated from Stanford in 2007. Prior to earning a jersey, Bobel served as the program’s student recruiting coordinator during the 2005-06 campaign.
He was the head coach for the freshman team at Palo Alto High School and assisted with the varsity squad in 2004-05. Bobel is a native of Palo Alto.
Reggiardo served as the strength and conditioning coach for the men’s basketball and women’s volleyball programs at Stanford for the past four seasons for Coach Johnson. Reggiardo will be responsible for all aspects of the players’ strength and speed development programs throughout the year in addition to overseeing their nutritional needs.
Prior to Stanford, he served as Director of Athletics for the Riekes Center for Human Enhancement, a non-profit program for adolescents in Menlo Park. Reggiardo received a B.S. in physiological sciences, with an emphasis in exercise physiology and psychology from Arizona in 1998.