Shanele Stires
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Shanele Marie Stires (born May 21, 1972) is an American retired professional women's basketball player and current college basketball coach.
Career
She is the head coach of the Cal Poly women's basketball team since April 2022.[1]
Stires attended Cloud County Community College during her freshman year before transferring to Kansas State University,[2] where she graduated in 1995 with a B.S. degree in Social Science. With Kansas State, Stires scored 1,344 career points, and as a senior was selected for Kodak All-America honorable mention and All-Big 8 First Team accolades.[3]
She started her American professional career playing for the Columbus Quest in the now-defunct American Basketball League (ABL). After the ABL ceased operations, she joined the Women's National Basketball Association and played for the Minnesota Lynx for three seasons after being drafted with the 56th overall pick in 2000.[4]
After her playing career she served three years as an assistant coach for the women's basketball team at Ohio University. In August 2006, she was named as an assistant coach at University of San Francisco. Stires also pursued a Master's Degree in Coaching Education from Ohio University.
Stires served as head coach for Cal State East Bay, coaching the Pioneers to their first-ever Division II NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 appearance in 2022.
Her brother, Sean Stires, is a play-by-play radio announcer for the University of Notre Dame's women's basketball team.
Career statistics
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WNBA
Regular season
Template:WNBA player statistics start |- | align="left" | 2000 | align="left" | Minnesota | 21 || 0 || 5.6 || .448 || .500 || .667 || 0.7 || 0.3 || 0.3 || 0.0 || 0.7 || 1.7 |- | align="left" | 2001 | align="left" | Minnesota | 18 || 5 || 11.2 || .377 || .240 || .714 || 1.5 || 0.8 || 0.4 || 0.2 || 1.1 || 2.8 |- | align="left" | 2002 | align="left" | Minnesota | 9 || 0 || 2.4 || .500 || .500 || .500 || 0.7 || 0.1 || 0.0 || 0.1 || 0.2 || 0.7 |- | align="left" | Career | align="left" | 3 years, 1 team | 48 || 5 || 7.1 || .407 || .324 || .667 || 1.0 || 0.5 || 0.3 || 0.1 || 0.7 || 1.9 |}
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College
Template:WNBA player statistics start |- | style="text-align:left;" | 1992–93 | style="text-align:left;" | Kansas State |27||-||-||41.3||24.1||66.7||9.0||2.2||2.0||0.3||-||13.4 |- | style="text-align:left;" | 1993–94 | style="text-align:left;" | Kansas State |27||-||-||47.3||33.0||75.4||8.7||2.4||2.2||0.0||-||17.1 |- | style="text-align:left;" | 1994–95 | style="text-align:left;" | Kansas State |27||-||-||47.8||34.3||68.8||8.3||1.9||2.0||0.1||-||19.3 |- | style="text-align:center;" colspan=2 | Career |81||-||-||45.7||32.4||70.3||8.7||2.2||2.1||0.1||-||16.6 |- class="sortbottom" |style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[5] |}
References
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External links
- WNBA Player Profile
- August 10, 2006 article on her joining the University of San Francisco's coaching staff
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- 1972 births
- Living people
- American women's basketball coaches
- Cal Poly Mustangs women's basketball coaches
- American women's basketball players
- Basketball coaches from Kansas
- Basketball players from Kansas
- Cal State East Bay Pioneers coaches
- Columbus Quest players
- Cloud County Thunderbirds women's basketball
- Kansas State Wildcats women's basketball players
- Minnesota Lynx draft picks
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- Ohio University alumni
- People from Cloud County, Kansas
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