PHILADELPHIA - La Salle alum Cheryl Reeve, who was a vital player on the Explorers' 1987-88 nationally ranked women's basketball team, guided the Minnesota Lynx to the WNBA title with a three-game sweep of the Atlanta Dream in the finals.

The Lynx bested the Dream by scores of 88-74, 101-95 and 73-67 in the best-of-five series. Reeve guided the squad to a 7-1 record in the postseason, taking a 2-1 series over San Antonio in the conference semifinals and winning back-to-back games against Phoenix in a best-of-three conference final series.

The WNBA title for Reeve caps off a tremendous year in just her second year at the helm and comes on the heels of being tabbed the WNBA Coach of the Year. Reeve guided the Lynx to a franchise record 27 wins, finishing with the league's best record at 27-7. That marked the second-biggest one-year turnaround as the team went 13-21 just one year ago.

Reeve mentored the WNBA Finals MVP as Seimone Augustus took home the MVP trophy. She also  guided the league's Rookie of the Year, Maya Moore, announced prior to the postseason in September. Her squad also swept the Western Conference Player of the Month honors for all three months of the season, and her team's five Player of the Week awards led the league.

Reeve was one of the leaders on the Explorers' 1987-88 squad that went 25-5 and earned a national ranking. That year, she was an All-MAAC and All-Big 5 pick. She holds the school record for most starts in a career (110) and ranks fifth in career assists (420). She was a Rhodes Scholar nominee, MAAC Scholar-Athlete Postgraduate Award recipient and NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient in 1988.