SPORTS HITS

Michigan Chronicle, February, 2006

Michigan Chronicle 02-28-2006 Shock hires Reeve as assistant coach Detroit Shock Head Coach and Director of Player Personnel Bill Laimbeer recently announced that the Shock has hired Cheryl Reeve to round out the team's coaching staff for the 2006 season. Reeve got her start in the WNBA with the Charlotte Sting in 2001 when she joined Anne Donovan's staff as an assistant.

After posting an 8-24 record the previous year, Charlotte turned things around in Reeve's first year by going 18-14 and advancing to the WNBA Finals. They followed in 2002 with another 18-14 mark and their second straight appearance in the postseason. Following the 2002 campaign, Donovan left to become the head coach of the Seattle Storm, and Dan Hughes and the Cleveland Rockers hired Reeve...