Lincoln University Women's Basketball Coaching Staff

Addae Houston | Head Women's Basketball Coach

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.

Leonard Erickson | Assistant Coach

Leonard Erickson joined the Lincoln women's basketball program as assistant coach in 2024 and is in his first season with the program.

Erickson joins the Blue Tigers after a two-year stint as the assistant coach at Lake Superior State University. During that time he coached a pair of All-GLIAC performers, including Grace Bradford, the 2022-23 GLIAC Freshman of the Year.

Prior to joining the staff at Lake Superior State, Erickson spent six years as a head coach. From 2019-22, Erickson coached at Milwaukee Area Technical College, where he led the Stormers to 27 victories and a pair of trips to the quarterfinals of the NJCAA Region 4 championship. From 2016-19, Erickson was the head coach at Little Priest Tribal College.

Erickson, who spent two seasons as a graduate assistant at Division I Indiana State, broke into the professional ranks by serving as the assistant women's basketball coach at Southwestern Community College. In addition to his years of coaching experience, Erickson has also helped lead basketball camps at Division I programs Butler, Indiana and Drake as well as Division II program Northwest Missouri. He also has served as a volunteer assistant at Dakota State University (2009) and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (2012-14).

Erickson is a member of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association and the Latino Association of Basketball Coaches. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas-El Paso in 2012 and a master's degree from Indiana State University in 2014.

Nana Sule | Assistant Coach

Nana Sule is in her third season as an assistant with the Lincoln women's basketball team after joining the program in 2022-23. Sule began her LU tenure as a graduate assistant and was elevated to the position of assistant coach in 2023-24.

Sule helped the Blue Tigers improve their win total in each of her first two seasons, with highlights including LU's first-ever season sweep of MIAA rival Emporia State in 2022-23 and the program's first-ever victory over Washburn in 2023-24. In her second season with the team, Sule helped lead Lincoln to back-to-back victories to close the 2023-24 campaign and helped coach Ashlyn Alloway to All-MIAA third team recognition.

In addition to her game day success, Sule has played an instrumental role in recruiting and scouting for the Blue Tigers. Sule also has helped create content for and curate the team's social media pages and has helped monitor the program's academic performance, overseeing teams that consistently hold grade point averages higher than 3.5.

As a player, Sule helped Division I New Mexico State win the Western Athletic Conference championship in 2019. Prior to transfering to NMSU, Sule played two seasons at Chipola, where she started 20 of the team's 22 games as a sophomore and averaged 6.2 points and 6.9 rebounds.

Sule received an associates degree from Chipola College in 2018 and a bachelor's degree from New Mexico State University in 2021. She is currently pursuing a master's degree at Lincoln.