Shanele Stires
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Junction City, Kansas
| Cal Poly Mustangs | |
|---|---|
| Position | Head coach |
| League | Big West Conference |
| Personal information | |
| Born | May 21, 1972 Junction City, Kansas |
| 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 |
| Drafted by | Minnesota Lynx |
| Playing career | 1996–2002 |
| Position | Forward |
| Number | 3 |
| Coaching career | 2003–present |
| Career history | |
| As a player: | |
| 1996–1999 | Columbus Quest |
| 2000–2002 | Minnesota Lynx |
| As a 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 | |
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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 | |
Shanele Marie Stires (born May 21, 1972) is an American retired professional women's basketball player and current college basketball coach.
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.