Shanele Stires
Shanele Marie Stires (born May 21, 1972) is an American retired professional women's basketball player.
| 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 / Round: 4 / Pick: 56th overall |
| 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 WNBA statistics | |
| Points | 92 (1.9 ppg) |
| Rebounds | 47 (1.0 rpg) |
| Assists | 22 (0.5 apg) |
| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
Career
She is the head coach of the Cal Poly women's basketball team.
Stires attended Cloud County Community College during her freshman year before transferring to Kansas State University, where she graduated in 1995 with a B.S. degree in Social Science.
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 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 is also currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Coaching Education from Ohio University.
Her brother, Sean Stires, is a play-by-play radio announcer for the University of Notre Dame's women's basketball team.
WNBA career statistics
| Legend | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 high | ° | League leader | ||||
Regular season
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TO | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |