PHILADELPHIA - La Salle alum Cheryl Reeve had the opportunity to celebrate her 2011 WNBA championship title again on Tuesday, when she and her Minnesota Lynx team visited with President Barack Obama at the White House.

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 last October and was named the 2011 WNBA Coach of the Year.

Reeve guided her Lynx squad to a remarkable turnaround capped off by last season's championship title. The team went just 13-21 two years ago and completed the second-biggest one-year turnaround to win a franchise record 27 games in just Reeve's second year at the helm.

Under her watch, Seimone Augustus was awarded the WNBA Finals Most Valuable Player trophy and Maya Moore was tabbed the WNBA Rookie of the Year.

This season is looking no different. With just three games left in the 2012 regular season, the Lynx clinched the Western Conference title with an outstanding 26-5 record. Reeve's squad has gone 16-3 in the Western Conference so far, and finished their home slate with a 16-1 home record this season. The team is averaging a WNBA-best 86.26 points per game, outscoring opponents by an average of 11.0 points per game.

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.