Entering her fourth season with the UIC women[apos]s basketball team is assistant coach Amanda Reese.
In her first year with the Flames, Reese helped guide the team on a memorable run in the second half of the season, which included an eight-game winning streak, a fourth-place finish in the Horizon League and the squad[apos]s first league tournament victory since 2002.
Reese helped guide the Flames[apos] to a record breaking year in 2006-07. UIC tabbed school records in consecutive wins (11) and most victories in a season (19). UIC also made its first-ever postseason trip in a WNIT appearance against Minnesota.
For four years prior to her arrival with the Flames, Reese was the `Jack of All Trades[apos] while serving as the lone Assistant Women[apos]s Basketball Coach for the University of Chicago, performing a multitude of tasks for the Maroons, including recruiting coordinator and perimeter coach.
Prior to her stint in Hyde Park, Reese spent one season at DeKalb High School as the Girls[apos] Assistant Varsity Coach as well as the junior varsity coach during the 1999-2000 school year.
Reese was a highly decorated student-athlete during her playing days at Northern Illinois (1995-99).
A three-year captain for NIU, she was named the Huskies[apos] MVP in 1997. Reese topped the 1,000 point plateau during her tenure and ranks second in the Huskies[apos] career record book for assists.
The Ohio native left an impression on the DeKalb campus off the court as well, as the NIU Athletics Department now annually gives the Reese Leadership Award, in her honor, to a selected student-athlete.
A former Miss Ohio Basketball who led Beavercreek to the state championship in 1995, Reese continues to give back to her hometown community as she and her high school coach have run the Amanda Reese and Ed Zink Basketball Camp since June of 2000.
