Dec. 11, 2009

MINNEAPOLIS, MN - The Minnesota Lynx recently announced the hiring of Cheryl Reeve as the team’s new head coach. Most recently, she served as an assistant coach and general manager for the WNBA’s Detroit Shock. The Lynx full release, which includes a video interview, can be viewed here.

Reeve’s coaching resume includes 21 years as both an assistant and a head coach at the collegiate and WNBA levels. In 2009, Reeve served as an assistant coach with the WNBA’s Detroit Shock, and was promoted to the team’s general manager position just three games into the season.

Hired by three-time WNBA champion Head Coach Bill Laimbeer, Reeve joined the Shock coaching staff in 2006 and helped the franchise reach the WNBA Finals in each of her first three years, winning WNBA titles in 2006 and 2008. During her four years with Detroit, the team held an 87-49 win/loss record and won at least 18 games each season, including 24 in 2007. Reeve also served as the Shock’s director of player personnel in 2008.

Reeve got her start in the WNBA with the Charlotte Sting in 2001 when she joined Anne Donovan's staff as an assistant. After posting an 8-24 record the year previous, Charlotte turned things around, going 18-14 and advancing to the WNBA Finals, in Reeve's first season on the bench.

As a player at La Salle, Reeve led the nationally-ranked Explorers to a 25-5 record in 1987-1988. She was named All-Metro Atlantic Conference and was an All-Big 5 selection as a senior. Reeve is second at the school for most games started (110) and ranks fifth on La Salle's career assist leader board (420).

Reeve excelled athletically and academically at La Salle, graduating with a degree in computer science/management information systems. A Rhodes Scholar nominee, Reeve received both a MAAC Scholar-Athlete Post Graduate Award and a NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship in 1988. She went on to earn her master's degree in business administration from her alma mater while also serving two years as an assistant coach for the Explorers.