Lumen Christi on Wednesday named Scott Stine as its new girls basketball coach. Stine led Arbor Prep to the Division 3 state championship this past season, the Gators’ third state title in four years. During Stine’s tenure, Arbor Prep went 158-47, won state titles in 2016, 2022, 2024 and 2025, and was a state runner-up twice. Stine said his interest in Lumen Christi came from “the school in general and just being a school based on faith and the academics, all of the resources and support for the athletic program. When you combine those three things, it was a very attractive job.” Arbor Prep went 17-12 last season, closing the year on a 10-game winning streak which saw the Gators cap off the season with a 32-21 win over Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest in the state title game. “Scott brings a lot of things to the table,” Lumen Christi athletic director Jesse Brown said. “He really focuses on culture within his program. He’s really good at, what he did at Ypsilanti Arbor Prep, was building it from the youth all the way up. That was the result in four state titles, two more runner-ups, and two more semifinal appearances.” Stine steps in for Brown, who in addition to being Lumen Christi’s athletic director, had taken on girls basketball coaching duties just prior to the start of the 2024-25 season. That led to a busy basketball season for Brown, coaching a resurgent Titans basketball program while also overseeing the rest of Lumen Christi’s teams. Before the season ended, Brown realized that was not sustainable. “Just from a time perspective, as athletic director, the whole athletic program needs my attention,” Brown said. “I didn’t want to shortchange what was going to happen in the girls basketball program by not giving it my full attention, or pull away from other programs. I was really excited to see when Scott’s name came across the board.” Stine, who ended Brown’s one-year tenure with the Titans, was in the process of looking for his own next step after 14 years at Arbor Prep. “When we happened to play them in the quarterfinal, talking to Jesse .. I have made a comment that he’s got to be pretty excited to have everybody, excluding one senior, everybody back,” Stine said. “And he had said then before the game he wasn’t really the coach, he was filling in this year and they’d be hiring somebody. So in the back of my head, I was thinking, you know, that that’s the type of job that I definitely would be interested in. So when the season concluded and they posted the job, it just kind of went from there.” That season, which saw the high school debut of a talented Titans freshman class featuring Kenna Hunt, Lucy Wrozek, Ollie Dalton and Erin O’Dowd, saw Lumen Christi win district and regional crowns, coincidentally falling to Arbor Prep in the state quarterfinal. “First impressions are they have a bunch of girls that play hard and are tough and play good team basketball,” Stine said. “I just hope to build off that. They’re young overall, they return everybody but one senior [Kathleen Donae], so I just want to build off that and take the next step.” Lumen Christi began the turnaround of the girls basketball program by playing strong defense, something which also stood as a hallmark of Stine’s teams at Arbor Prep. “We’re not going to change that, we’re going to play good defense,” Stine said. “That was one of their strengths. A lot of defense is just dedication to it and a consistent belief in I’m going to compete and play hard, and they’re already good at that.” Stine’s Arbor Prep defense caused fits for the Titans in the quarterfinal, holding Lumen Christi to 28 points. That came days before holding Niles Brandywine to 29 in the semifinal and then holding Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest to 21 in the final. That Gators averaged 29 points allowed in their seven postseason games this year. “He does like to play fast,” Brown said. “I think what makes Scott so great at what he does is he adjusts what he has from a personnel perspective. He really did that the last half of last year, really slowing people down like he did to us.”