Sheila Roux

Position: Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator Alma Mater: Minnesota-Crookston, 2000

Sheila Roux joined the Illinois State coaching staff in May, 2010, as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. Roux has over a decade of collegiate basketball experience as a coach and player.

She played a crucial role in the Redbirds success during the 2010-11 season, including the first undefeated Illinois State regular season at home in program history. Roux also helped coach the Redbirds to their third-straight semifinal appearance in the Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT).

Roux spent four seasons as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2006-10), mentoring five All-Horizon League selections and two-time Horizon League Player of the Year Traci Edwards.

Prior to her stint at Milwaukee, Roux spent a season as the interim head coach at her alma mater Minnesota-Crookston. A four-year letterwinner for the Eagles (1995-2000), she was a volunteer assistant coach during the 2000-01 season. While a player at UMC, Roux was named the school's Female Athlete of the Year in 2000 and graduated as the school's all-time leader in three-pointers (record broken in 2008.

Roux spent two seasons as an assistant coach at UW-Parkside from 2003-05. In 2005, the Rangers set a school record with 20 wins and made the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history. Roux was a graduate assistant at South Dakota State from 2001-03, the Jackrabbits posted an overall record of 60-11. A member of Division II at the time, the Jackrabbits reached the NCAA Tournament Semifinals in 2002. In 2003, SDSU won the Division II National Championship.

Roux earned undergraduate degrees in sports recreation and management, and information networking management from Crookston and has a master's degree in sports pedagogy with an emphasis in athletic administration from South Dakota State.