Cal Poly Mustangs | |
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Position | Head coach |
League | Big West Conference |
Personal information | |
Born | Junction City, Kansas | May 21, 1972
Listed height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
Listed weight | 170 lb (77 kg) |
Career information | |
High school | Salina Central (Salina, Kansas) |
College |
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WNBA draft | 2000: 4th round, 56th overall pick |
Selected by the Minnesota Lynx | |
Playing career | 1996–2002 |
Position | Forward |
Number | 3 |
Coaching career | 2003–present |
Career history | |
As player: | |
1996–1999 | Columbus Quest |
2000–2002 | Minnesota Lynx |
As coach: | |
2003–2006 | Ohio (assistant) |
2006–2008 | San Francisco (assistant) |
2008–2010 | San Diego State (assistant) |
2010–2011 | Stetson (assistant) |
2011–2012 | Nebraska–Omaha (assistant) |
2012–2014 | San Francisco (assistant) |
2014–2016 | San Francisco (associate HC) |
2016–2022 | Cal State East Bay |
2022–present | Cal Poly |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Career WNBA statistics | |
Points | 92 (1.9 ppg) |
Rebounds | 47 (1.0 rpg) |
Assists | 22 (0.5 apg) |
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
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
GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game | RPG | Rebounds per game |
APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game | BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game |
TO | Turnovers per game | FG% | Field-goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field-goal percentage | FT% | Free-throw percentage |
Bold | Career best | ° | League leader |
WNBA
Regular season
Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TO | PPG |
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2000 | Minnesota | 21 | 0 | 5.6 | .448 | .500 | .667 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 1.7 |
2001 | Minnesota | 18 | 5 | 11.2 | .377 | .240 | .714 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 2.8 |
2002 | Minnesota | 9 | 0 | 2.4 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.7 |
Career | 3 years, 1 team | 48 | 5 | 7.1 | .407 | .324 | .667 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 1.9 |
GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game | RPG | Rebounds per game |
APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game | BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game |
TO | Turnovers per game | FG% | Field-goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field-goal percentage | FT% | Free-throw percentage |
Bold | Career best | ° | League leader |
College
Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TO | PPG |
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1992–93 | Kansas State | 27 | - | - | 41.3 | 24.1 | 66.7 | 9.0 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 0.3 | - | 13.4 |
1993–94 | Kansas State | 27 | - | - | 47.3 | 33.0 | 75.4 | 8.7 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 0.0 | - | 17.1 |
1994–95 | Kansas State | 27 | - | - | 47.8 | 34.3 | 68.8 | 8.3 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 0.1 | - | 19.3 |
Career | 81 | - | - | 45.7 | 32.4 | 70.3 | 8.7 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 0.1 | - | 16.6 | |
Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[5] |
References
- ^ Wilson, Nick (April 15, 2022). "Cal Poly hires women's basketball coach with WNBA experience". The San Luis Obispo Tribune. pp. 3B.
- ^ Johnson, Trey (October 24, 1994). "Stires helps Cats strive: Senior is leader of women's team". The Kansas City Star. pp. C5.
- ^ K-State Women's Basketball 2023-24 Media Guide. Kansas State University. 2023. p. 108.
- ^ Minnesota Lynx 2019 Media Guide. Minnesota Lynx. 2019. p. 129.
- ^ "Shanele Stires College Stats". Sports-Reference. Retrieved July 7, 2024.