Shannon Reid enters her first season as an assistant coach with the Clayton State women’s basketball program. In addition to her coaching duties, she will also assist in recruiting, scouting and basketball operations.

Before joining the staff at Clayton State, Reid coached last year at another Peach Belt Conference school, the University of South Carolina Aiken in Aiken, SC. She helped lead the Lady Pacers to a 19-13 record last year and their second trip to the NCAA Division II National Tournament. 

Prior to coaching at USC-Aiken, Reid was an assistant coach in 2003 at St. Andrews College, a NCAA Division II school in the Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference (CVAC). She also was head coach and director of the Mosney’s Women’s Club/Junior Club in Dublin, Ireland, serving in that capacity while playing professionally. 

Reid was a standout player at both the professional and college level. In Ireland, she was the only American in the Dart Killester Super League and was third on her squad in scoring, leading the squad to the Cup Finals in 2004. 

A three-year starter at Pfeiffer University, she starred for the Falcons and helped lead the team to back-to-back CVAC Championships in 2003 and 2002. As a senior, she led the team to a 24-5 record and averaged 14 points per game and was named 2003 CVAC Player of the Year and Pfeiffer’s “Female Athlete of the Year.” Her junior season, Reid averaged 16 points per contest and was an All-CVAC performer. 

In addition to these honors, she was a member’s of Pfeiffer’s 1,000 Point Club in only three seasons and ranked third in the nation in three-point field goal percentage in 2003, leading the school to its first NCAA Division II national tournament appearance. 

Reid, a native of Granite Falls, NC, is 2003 graduate of Pfeiffer, in Misenheimer, NC, with a B.A. in sports management.