Colorado Basketball: Colorado legend Shelly Sheets is excited for new opportunity under head coach JR Payne

Colorado Buffaloes alum and basketball legend Shelley Sheets is excited about her new coaching opportunity under Buffs head coach and great in her own right JR Payne. She has now been hired as a special assistant to JR Payne and director of player development.

You can’t really ask for a better person to be in charge of player development when you are talking about the legendary status of Sheetz. She is second all time in CU history with 1,775 points and 514 assists. She made 252 3-point shots in the once Big Eight Conference which held the all-time record at the time. Sheetz was also a three-time all conference first-team player of the year. As well as Female Athlete of the Year in her senior season for Colorado in 1995. Her experience alone is enough to mold and shape players to be the best they can be.

Shelley was a 5-foot-six stand out point guard for the Buffs, out of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She was inducted to the Colorado University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004. A once First-Team All-American, three-time conference first-team player, two-time Colorado MVP, and Naismith award finalist. In her senior season she led the Buffs to an astonishing 30-3 record.

Sheetz was the assistant women’s basketball coach at Loyola University in Maryland. She has also been the assistant coach at Washington State, Pepperdine University, The University of Denver, and Boston College.

Between the likes of a fine legend like her and an incredible coach like JR Payne the future of women’s college basketball in Boulder is as bright as it’s ever been. Shelley get’s to come full circle to her alma mater and prove what legends are made of. She is already quite a fan of once freshman Kindyll Wetta who was a steal mater for Colorado last season and the Pac-12 overall.

After becoming the superstar she was for Colorado, Sheetz played briefly for team USA before starting her coaching career a few years later. She knows what it takes to get to the top of women’s basketball and how to get there. Now that the Buffs have finally gotten back to The Dance in NCAAW basketball Shelley is going to be here to do her part in making sure they stay there.