Stacey Smalls enters her fifth season on the bench for the La Salle University Basketball Program. Her duties at La Salle include developing the guards and assisting with recruiting. She is also responsible for postgame film breakdown.
Smalls is a 2003 graduate of Temple University where she was a four-year member of the basketball team under Former Owl Head Coach Dawn Staley. During her playing career at Temple, Smalls finished her four-year career as the sixth all-time leading scorer and is the only Owl to score more than 1,000 points and lead the team in assists in four straight seasons.
While at Temple, Smalls scored 1,258 points, while dishing out 360 assists and amassing 187 steals. In 2002, she led the Owls to their first Atlantic 10 Championship title and was named the tournament's MVP. Her other postseason accolades include A-10 Most Improved Player in 2001, A-10 Second Team and Defensive Team Member in 2001, 2002, and 2003, and First Team Philadelphia Big 5 in 2002 and 2003.
Outside of her playing for the Owls, Smalls worked basketball camps at both Temple University and at Norristown High School. She also interned at both the Dawn Staley Foundation and Staley 5, where she helped organize basketball clinics and aided in the development of a girls summer league.
Smalls has professional basketball experience, having played for the Birmingham Power of the National Women's Basketball League. During her tenure with the Power, she led the team in minutes played and assists as the starting point guard.
Since the beginning of her collegiate career at Temple, Smalls has been very active in the community and worked closely with children at basketball camps and most recently as a case manager for the Philadelphia Youth Services Agency.
Smalls resides in Cheltenham and attended Cheltenham High School.
