Amber Reeves has joined the Hofstra women’s basketball coaching staff as an assistant coach as of July 2024.
Reeves previously spent three seasons on the women's basketball staff at Furman University; first as an assistant coach from 2021-23, before becoming the assistant coach/recruiting coordinator for the 2023-24 season. The Paladins won 46 games with Reeves on the bench, and they qualified for the 2021 WBI Tournament on the heels of a trip to the championship game of the 2021 Southern Conference Championship. 10 members of the Furman women’s basketball program earned All-SoCon honors during her time at Furman, including 2021 Player of the Year and First Team selection Tierra Hodges. With the Paladins, Reeves was responsible for managing and organizing all recruiting efforts, as well as skill development of all wing and stretch forward players, and creating and executing opposition scouting reports.
Prior to her time at Furman, Reeves was an assistant coach/recruiting coordinator at Ouachita Baptist University for the 2020-21 season. At Ouachita Baptist, Reeves directed all recruiting efforts and led player development for the guard and post players, as well as breaking down game and practice film and assisting in social media and strength & conditioning efforts for the team. Reeves helped coached Eden Crow and Makayla Miller earn All-Great American Conference Second Team honors, and she helped recruit NCAA Division II top-scorer and GAC Freshman of the Year Aspen Thornton to the Tigers.
Additionally, Reeves was the Director of Operations at Youngstown State University for the 2019-20 season. She worked directly with the recruiting coordinator for all recruiting efforts, and her duties with the Penguins also included game and practice video breakdown and creating opposing scouting reports.
A native of Marietta, Georgia, Reeves was a double graduate from UNCW; she received her bachelor’s degree in Biology in 2017 prior to earning her master’s degree in Chemistry in 2020. She was a four-year starter for the Seahawks and earned the Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award in 2017, as well three consecutive appearances on the CAA All-Academic Team in 2015, 2016, and 2017, and she was a nominee for the 2017 NCAA Woman of the Year. Following the end of her collegiate playing career, Reeves was a graduate assistant with the Seahawks from 2017 through 2019.
