Chris Mouat enters his seventh season guiding the Skylight program.  Prior to coming to MSU-Northern, he worked in the women’s basketball programs at both Rocky Mountain College and Montana Tech.  At Rocky Mountain College, he served as the assistant women’s basketball coach as well as the Sports Information Director/Assistant Athletic Director.

Mouat is a 1989 graduate of Helena High School and a 1993 graduate of the University of Montana.  He began his teaching and coaching career in Helena, where he taught middle school English and assisted in the boys and girls basketball programs at Helena High School.  He was a part of the staff that helped lead the 1997 Bengal girls to the Class AA state title.  In his five seasons as a boys assistant coach, the Bengals made two state title appearances.

From 1998-2001, Mouat was the head girls basketball coach at Butte High School, where he sent five players on to play at the college level in four seasons.  Mouat was also an assistant coach in the Bulldog boys program for a pair of seasons.

Mouat has coached in the Montana/Wyoming All-Star game twice and he has coached the Montana boys and girls All-Star teams in the Down Under Hoops Classic on the Gold Coast of Australia five different times beginning in 1998.  He has been a speaker/clinician at the Montana Coaches Association clinic as well as the Northwest Basketball Camp.

During his time at MSU-Northern, Mouat has had four players earn NAIA All-American honors (Jaci Heny, DeLayne Johnston, Stacie Barker, and Samm Schermele.  Schermele was a two-time selection, joining Dani Davison as the only Skylight to be named an All-American twice.  Seven players (Camille Gardner, jayla McPherson, Chelsie Searle, Kylee Starr, Dana Ball, Kaylee Shaw, and Jennie Lee) have earned Daktronics NAIA All-America Scholar-Athlete honors, and eleven players have earned All-Frontier honors (Gardner, Heny, Johnston twice, Barker twice, Schermele three times, Michele Van Dyke, Becky Sorenson, Taylor Keller twice, Kaylee Shaw, and Zivile Gaizutyte).  Barker was a two-time Frontier Conference Defensive Player of the Year and the Skylights first-ever Women’s Basketball Coaches Association All-American.  In three of the past five seasons, the Skylights have been honored by the WBCA for their efforts in the classroom as a top 25 academic team.

Twice in his six seasons, the Skylights have led the entire country in free throw percentage (2005-06 and 2010-2011).  Stacie Barker currently holds the NAIA all-time record for shot block average in a career.  His teams have broken six school records, and 13 players have set all-time single game, season, or career marks at MSU-Northern.

Mouat coached the Skylight team that advanced to the round of 16 at the NAIA National Tournament in 2006, and two Skylights have earned NAIA National Player of the Week honors (Jaci Heny in 2006 and Stacie Barker in 2009).  Mouat earned his 100^th win at MSU-Northern last February with a 70-54 win over Carroll College in Helena.