Grand Valley State University Athletics

Scott Wooster is set for his third year as the head coach at Grand Valley State. Wooster, who was formally introduced at the eighth head coach in Grand Valley State football history January 24, 2023, spent the three years prior to being named head coach as the offensive line coach/run game coordinator for the Lakers. 

GVSU finished the 2024 campaign with an 11-2 record and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Division II playoffs. 

Wooster guided the Lakers to an 11-2 overall mark in his first year at the helm, including the 2024 GLIAC Championship with a 6-0 mark and a berth in the NCAA Division playoffs. GVSU advanced to the Super Region 3 Championship game after playoff wins over Ferris State (21-14) and Pittsburg State (24-21). The Lakers dropped a 7-6 decision at eventual National Champion Harding in the NCAA quarterfinal. 

Playing one of the toughest schedules in the country, the Lakers played five games versus teams ranked in the top five nationally during the 2023 campaign, including a 49-28 victory over then top-ranked Ferris State on October 14. GVSU scored 43 points or more in eight consecutive games and limited opponents to 14 points or less nine games during the season. 

Wooster mentored one of the most dominant offensive line in the country during the 2022 campaign. Grand Valley State led the GLIAC and ranked in the top 10 nationally in scoring offense (37.9 ppg), total offense (449.8 ypg), and rushing offense (228.7 ypg) in 2022. Wooster mentored an offensive line in 2022 that tallied five All-GLIAC honorees, including three first-team performers. In addition, offensive tackle Quinton Barrow was a consensus First-Team All-American, the GLIAC. Offensive Lineman of the Year, and was selected to play in the East-West Shrine Bowl. The Laker ground game rushed for 3,327 yards and 44 touchdowns in 2022, averaging 5.6 yards per rush. During Wooster's two years leading the Laker offensive line on the field, GVSU has rushed for 6,263 yards and 76 touchdowns. 

Wooster spent 11 years at Wayne State University, including seven as the offensive line coach. During his time at WSU as the offensive line coach, he mentored 13 All-GLIAC performers and one GLIAC?Offensive Lineman of the Year. Wooster coached the tight ends at Wayne State from 2010-13.  

In 2019, three members of his offensive line group received All-GLIAC recognition, while the offensive line corps helped WSU rank 10th in fewest turnovers (12), 14th nationally in time of possession (32:40) and 24th in fewest sacks allowed per game (1.18). The previous year in 2018, he helped tutor two First Team All-GLIAC selections in Tommy Richardson and Israel Helms, along with WSU Offensive Rookie of the Year Reid Thompson.  WSU ranked 28th nationally in fewest tackles for loss allowed per game (5.09). Helms had tryouts with both the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

Wooster tutored two All-GLIAC performers in 2016 in left tackle Nate Theaker (GLIAC Offensive Lineman of the Year) and right guard Robert Kelly.  Theaker earned numerous All-America accolades (AFCA, D2CCA and Associated Press) and participated in the NFLPA Bowl as well as the NFL Combine.  Kelly had free agent tryouts with Kansas City and Atlanta.  Theaker was on the practice squad with both the Dallas Cowboys and New Orleans Saints during the 2017 NFL season.WSU scored the third-most TD in the GLIAC (52) in 2016 and finished sixth nationally in rushing offense (274.3 ypg), 10th in fewest TFL allowed (4.18 pg) and 23rd in yards per completion (14.59).

He mentored two 2015 All-GLIAC performers in First Team selection Tommy Richardson and Second Team honoree Robert Kelly. In 2015, the WSU offense ranked 18th in yards per completion (14.83), 21st in red zone offense (86.8%), 33rd in time of possession (31:44) and 43rd in the rushing offense (194.0 yards per game). 

After attending Eastern Michigan in the fall of 1995, he transferred to WSU in the spring of 1996 and saw limited action that season for the Tartars.  He then started all 11 games for WSU in both 1997 and 1998 at right tackle.  As a senior and team captain, Wooster lettered as a left guard in 1999.  He was twice named to the MIFC All-Academic team (1997 and 1999).

Wooster earned his undergraduate degree from WSU in 2001 and a master's in exercise science with a concentration in exercise & sport psychology in 2007, also from WSU.

Prior to joining the WSU coaching staff, he served as the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach at Warren Mott High School.

Wooster and his wife, Christina, reside in Allendale and are the proud parents of  daughter, Elliana (13).