Shannon Gholar enters her third season as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator with Nevada in 2019-20, working with the guards.
Year two brought with it new challenges, with an especially young roster that included six freshmen. With just four key returners from the previous season, five of those six freshmen were thrust into major roles on the team. By the time the season had ended, that group of rookies had played 35.8 percent of the team’s minutes and set the pieces in place for the future of the program. Along with working to develop three freshmen guards, Gholar also helped develop Jade Redmon into an all-conference performer. Redmon posted a career year in her senior season and led the team averaging over 15 points per game, which ranked in the top five in the conference, and scored in double figures in all but one game. With her strong play all season long, Redmon was named to the All-Mountain West team for the first time in her career.
In her first year on staff, Gholar helped guide the Wolf Pack to its first winning season in four years and reach 19 wins, second most in program history. Nevada began the Mountain West Tournament as the No. 7 seed and picked up upset after upset, defeating No. 2 UNLV in double overtime and No. 3 Wyoming to reach its first ever Mountain West Championship game. Although the Pack lost in the championship to No. 1 Boise State on a last second buzzer beater, the tone was set for the future. Nevada went on to reach the semifinals of the Women’s Basketball Invitational, just its fourth postseason appearance in program history.
Under Gholar’s direction, Nevada ranked second in the Mountain West in both 3-point shooting percentage and scoring offense. She helped former guard T Moe and returning guard Camariah King to career seasons from beyond the arc. During the MW Tournament, Moe averaged almost 20 points per game and shot nearly 50 percent from the 3-point line en route to being named to the MW All-Tournament team.
Gholar joined the staff at Nevada with four years of Division I coaching experience. She spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Davidson and got her start in coaching as an assistant at Vermont from 2013-15. While at Vermont she oversaw the recruiting aspect of the program and worked and developed the team’s guards.
Gholar has previously worked with head coach Amanda Levens, serving as a graduate assistant at Arizona State from 2011-13 when Levens was an assistant coach. While at ASU she assisted the Sun Devils in many aspects of the program including skill workouts, recruiting, game management and marketing.
A native of Monrovia, Calif., she began her collegiate career as a guard at Cal Poly San Louis Obispo for two seasons. She then transferred to Cal State San Bernardino where she played her final two years. Gholar earned a bachelor’s degree from Cal State San Bernardino in 2011 and obtained her master’s degree in higher education from Arizona State in 2013.
