Women's Basketball | February 11, 2015

PHILADELPHIA - Cheryl Reeve '88, two-time WNBA champion head coach of the Minnesota Lynx and former Explorer standout, has been named an assistant coach for the United States Women's National Team at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

She joins DePaul's Doug Bruno and South Carolina's Dawn Staley as assistants to national team head coach Geno Auriemma of Connecticut.

"I'm thrilled to be continuing with the USA Basketball Women's National Team for the 2016 Olympics," Reeve said in a release. "I thoroughly enjoyed working alongside Geno, Doug and Dawn, as well as the amazing USA National Team players at the World Championship. I look forward to competing for gold in Rio."

Reeve served with the same staff for the USA FIBA World Championship Team that captured gold at the FIBA World Championship in Istanbul, Turkey, this past fall. 

The decorated Lynx head coach has guided the Minnesota squad to two WNBA championship titles and three WNBA finals appearances along with a 118-52 record in her five seasons. Her Lynx squad, which includes Olympians Maya Moore, Lindsay Whalen and Seimone Augustus, captured the first-ever WNBA Preseason Tournament title before the current season.

In addition to two WNBA titles and three Western Conference titles, Reeve has guided a WNBA Rookie of the Year (Maya Moore), along with two WNBA Finals MVPs, four First Team picks, four Second Team honorees, two All-Rookie selections and three All-Defensive team selections along with being named the 2011 WNBA Coach of the Year.

Reeve, a 1988 La Salle graduate, led the Explorers to two NCAA Tournaments in her time on 20th and Olney including the 1987-88 squad that went 25-5. 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.