Women's Basketball | October 3, 2016

NEW YORK – The WNBA announced Friday that Minnesota Lynx head coach and La Salle women's basketball alumna Cheryl Reeve is the recipient of the 2016 WNBA Coach of the Year Award.
 
Reeve received 17 votes from a national panel of 39 sportswriters and broadcasters. This is Reeve's second Coach of the Year honor after earning the award in 2011.
 
The Lynx finished the 2016 regular season 28-6, and advanced to their fifth WNBA Finals in six seasons after clinching a three-game sweep over the Phoenix Mercury on Sunday. Minnesota will await the winner of the series between the Chicago Sky and the Los Angeles Sparks. 

Minnesota has complied 155 wins under Reeve, the most prolific six-year run in WNBA history, and won three WNBA Championships (2011, 2013 and 2015). Since taking over in 2010, Reeve's .706 winning percentage (168-70) ranks first in league history. She is one of three coaches to win more than 60% of their games (Van Chancellor, .655; Michael Cooper, .616).
 
Minnesota began its best regular season in the franchise's 18-year history by winning its first 13 contests, the longest season-opening winning streak in league history.
 
Reeve, a 1988 La Salle graduate, helped the Blue and Gold to a 25-5 record as a senior on her way to All-MAAC and All-Big 5 selections. 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.