[2] On November 14, 2007, La Rocque signed her letter of intent to play college basketball for Stanford.
[1] La Rocque graduated from Stanford with a bachelor's degree in science, technology, and society, with an emphasis on earth systems, civil and environmental engineering, and calculus.
[4][6] Returning to her alma mater, La Rocque was an assistant coach at Stanford from 2017 to 2020 again under VanDerveer.
[4][8] At the time of her hiring, La Rocque was the second-youngest coach in Division I women's basketball at the age of 30.
[9] In 2021, the Mountain West Conference named La Rocque its Coach of the Year in women's basketball after La Rocque's debut season in which UNLV finished 13–5 in Mountain West play and second in conference standings.