Northwestern State University of Louisana

Now in her eigth season on staff, former All-Louisiana and All-Southland Conference outside hitter Stacey Aldredge née DiFrancesco was named associate head coach in 2022.

Working with Northwestern State’s hitters, Aldredge helped push Reagan Rogers to a breakout junior season in 2017 that saw Rogers earn first-team All-Southland Conference and All-Louisiana honors while notching the second-highest single-season kill total in school history. She helped garner a second-team All-Southland and first-team All-Louisiana selection in 2018 and topped that with one one of the best offensive seaons in Demon history. In 2019 alone, Brister set the record for kills (539), kills per set (4.77, attempts (1454), points (588.0) and points per set (5.20) in a single season. She was named the SLC and Louisiana Player of the Year, a first for NSU on both awards.

She helped Symone Wesley earn NSU’s first Southland Conference Newcomer of the Year award in 2021 with a team-best 292 kills as a true six-rotation player that was the only one to finish in the top 10 in the conference in both kills and digs per set. In 2022, Breanna Burrell became the fourth player to crack the top 15 in single-season kills under Aldredge with 338.

In 2023 she guided Teresa Garza to being the eighth player in program history to a 300-kill, 300-dig season, something Aldredge accomplished twice in her first two seasons as a player.

Aldredge capped her four-year Lady Demons career with the 2014 Southland Conference Tournament championship, leading Northwestern State to the first postseason berth in program history.

A four-year starter at outside hitter, Aldredge concluded her career as Northwestern State’s leader in kills (1,318) and total attempts (4,683). She also owns the top two seasons in program history in total attempts (1,390 in 2011; 1,244 in 2012). 

Her 424 kills in 2011 are tied for the third-most in school single-season history and the most by a freshman in program history. Her 1,383 career digs stand third in school history.

Aldredge, the 2011 Southland Conference and Louisiana Sports Writers Association Freshman of the Year, finished her career as a three-time All-Southland selection (2nd team, 2011; 1st team 2012 and 2013) and nabbed two first-team All-Louisiana honors (2011, 2012) and a second-team selection in 2013.

After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in family and consumer sciences, Aldredge remained involved with volleyball, serving as a volunteer assistant coach at Clemson University and helping begin the program at nearby Natchitoches Central High School in 2016. 

Stacey Aldredge, formerly Stacey DiFrancesco, and former Northwestern State football tight end Justin Aldredge were married in May of 2019. The couple welcomed daughter Finnley Jo to the family in July of 2023.