Shanna Cook - Women's Basketball Coach - Tulane University Athletics

Shanna Cook

Title:
Assistant Coach

Shanna Cook joins the Tulane staff for 2006-07 with 11 years experience as an assistant coach, including the past two years at Samford University where she helped the Bulldogs set a school record last year with a 21-8 mark. While the 2006-07 season will be Cook[apos]s first at Tulane, it is not her first experience in the Crescent City as she starred at UNO from 1991-95 and served as an assistant coach with the Privateers from 1996-2004. [quote]I[apos]m excited to have Shanna join our staff,[quote] head coach Lisa Stockton said on May 11, 2006, announcing the hire. [quote]I have known her ever since she played at UNO, and always had great respect for her as a coach and a recruiter. She has tremendous ties to the community and brings different recruiting bases that will help open new doors for us. She brings 11 years of experience and will be a tremendous asset to our program.[quote] Cook assists in all facets of recruiting, practice schemes and game-plan implementation. In addition, she helps coordinate the Green Wave[apos]s community service projects and youth camps. [quote]One thing that has really impressed me is how much she loves New Orleans and how much she wants to be a part of the city again,[quote] Stockton said. [quote]That says a lot about her character and I look forward to working with her.[quote] At Samford, she helped the Bulldogs post a combined 34-23 record, back-to-back double-digit win seasons and the first 20-win season in school history. Last season, Samford posted its best conference finish to date, going 15-5 to finish third in the Ohio Valley Conference and just one game back of a three-way co-championship. Cook began her coaching career at her alma mater in 1996. During her time on the UNO bench, the Privateers won a combined 99 games, posted a pair of winning seasons and finished as high as third in the Sun Belt West Division in 2000-01. A four-year letterwinner and three-year starter at UNO, Cook played in 114 games during her college career, averaging 9.2 points and 2.7 rebounds a game while dishing out 341 assists. Cook set UNO records for 3-pointers in a game (eight), season (91) and career (187). She also ranks among the all-time leaders in 3-point field goal percentage (.341), minutes (3,116) and steals (173). As a junior, she led the Sun Belt Conference with a 5.0 assist-per-game average and topped the league in 3-point field goal percentage her final two seasons. In her senior year, she ranked third in the nation in 3-point shooting, and was selected to compete in the 1995 Women[apos]s 3-Point Shooting Championship in Seattle, Wash., during the week of the NCAA Men[apos]s Final Four. [quote]I[apos]m absolutely elated about coming back (to New Orleans),[quote] Cook said. [quote]This could not have worked out better and I[apos]m very excited to work at Tulane. I lived in New Orleans for so long and loved it, and having an opportunity to come back and work at a place like Tulane is just a tremendous opportunity. I[apos]m especially excited to have the opportunity to work with Coach Stockton and be around a program that has been tremendously successful.[quote] A native of Canaan, Ind., Cook originally came to New Orleans in the fall of 1991 following a stellar career at Madison Consolidated where she was a third-team all-state selection as a senior after averaging 19.2 points per game, and was an honorable-mention all-state selection following her sophomore and junior seasons. She also played on a pair of state champion AAU squads. Cook completed her bachelor[apos]s degree in sports management from UNO in 1996 and earned a master[apos]s of education in 2000.