Cheryl Reeve , an American basketball coach, currently works as the head coach of the Minnesota Links National Women's Basketball Association . He is the leader of WNBA in the percentage of matches won during his career.
| Cheryl Reeve | |
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| Cheryl reeve | |
 Reeve on the coaching bridge of the West team at the all-star match (July 27, 2013) | |
| Minnesota links | |
| Position | Main coach |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Date of Birth | September 20, 1966 (52 years old) |
| College | La Salle (1984-1988) |
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Coaching career
Reeve began her coaching career at her hometown of La Salle , where she worked as an assistant coach from 1988 to 1990. She then moved to the same position at George Washington University. For five years at the university, the team three times became the champion of the Atlantic 10 conference and four times participated in the NCAA tournament. In 1995, she took over as head coach at Indiana State University . Under her leadership, Indiana showed the best result every year, until in the 1998/99 season she reached the playoffs for the first time in 20 years.
Reeve first entered the VNBA in 2001 when she joined the coaching staff of Charlotte Sting head coach Ann Donovan . If before her arrival the team showed the result of 8-24 in the previous season, then in the next season she already won 18 wins with 14 defeats, and reached the final in the playoffs. In 2002, "Sting" again showed the result of 18-14 and for the second time in a row went into post-season games.
At the end of the 2002 season, Donovan moved to Seattle Storm , and Cleveland Rockers head coach Dan Hughes invited Cheryl to become his assistant. In 2003, the Rockers entered the playoffs, however, at the end of the championship, the owners of the team decided to disband it and Reeve became a free agent. She was again invited to Sting, where she spent the next two seasons, after which she moved to Detroit Shock , where, in addition to being an assistant coach, she also served as general manager.
Minnesota Links
Reeve took over as head coach of the Minnesota Links December 8, 2009. In her debut season, the team showed a result of 13-21 and did not get into the playoffs. During the season, a number of key players, such as Candice Wiggins and Simon Augustus, were injured, but Reeve herself was also unhappy with her work, saying: “We are a bad basketball team. It all starts with the basics. I could not make them understand what we should do in defense and, frankly, our attack is one of the worst in the league ” [1] .
In the 2011 season, the team’s game improved significantly. Wiggins and Augustus recovered, and the arrival of newcomer Maya Moore to the club made Link a contender for the league title. The team finished the regular season with a result of 27-7, and Reeve received the award for the best coach of the ZhNBA [2] [3] . In the playoffs, Minnesota lost only one game and won the title of WNBA champion.
In 2012, “Lynx” again reached the playoffs. Moreover, the team qualified for post-season games after 21 games of the regular season - the best indicator in the club’s history, and Reeves became the leader of “Lynx” in the percentage of matches won during his career [4] . As a result, Minnesota reached the final of the WNBA, where they lost to Indiana Feaver .
In 2013, Lynx again became the best team in the Western Conference, and reached the final in the playoff games without losing a single match along the way. In the final, the club was stronger than Atlanta Dream and won the second league title in three years. The team repeated this achievement two years later, again becoming the champion of the WNBA in 2015 .