BALTIMORE – Coppin State women's basketball head coach
Darrell Mosley has announced the addition of
Riley Maye and
La'Sheena Brooks to his coaching staff. Both will serve as assistant coaches while Brooks also holds the title of recruiting coordinator.
Maye joins Coach Mosley's staff after serving as an assistant coach at Mount St. Mary's the last two years where he was instrumental in curating offensive and defensive gameplans and adjustments, recruiting, scheduling and the development of its post players.
A former head coach at Harcum College (2020-24), Maye won 83 games in his four seasons at the helm before heading to Emmittsburg. Maye led the Bears to a 28-6 record during the 2023-24 season, reaching as high as third in the NJCAA poll, the highest ranking school history. The Bears went on to win a pair of games during the NJCAA Tournament, including a District B Championship, and he was selected as the District Coach of the Year.
Prior to his final season in Bryn Mawr, the Bears went 30-4 with a trip to the NJCAA Final Four during the 2022-23 campaign which saw Amaris Baker lead the Nation in scoring and earn First Team All-America honors. Under Maye's tutelage, the Bears had five players named First Team All-Region and a pair of NJCAA All-Tournament Team selections. Baker went on to play at Drexel, headlining several players who made the jump along with Courtney Turner (FIU), Jasmyn Jefferies (Claflin) and Ciara Bailey (Norfolk State) to name a few.
Additional stops for Maye are the Philadelphia Belles, an EYBL and National Team allowing for the opportunity to coach more than 30 Division I athletes, three McDonald's All-Americans and two future WNBA lottery picks. Maye also worked for one year with Lehigh men's basketball as their Director of Operations in the 2017-18 season.
As an athlete, Maye was a four-year player at Norfolk State where he competed in 68 games and scored 174 points for the Spartans. In his senior season, he participated in 33 games with 10 starts while averaging 4.5 points per game. Maye was a member of the 2012 team that was inducted into the NSU Hall of Fame in 2024 after it won the MEAC Title and went on to defeat #2 seeded Missouri in the NCAA Tournament.
Brooks spent the last five seasons as head coach at Shorter University where she led the program to one of the most successful stretches in program history. She guided the Hawks to the program's first 20-win season in the NCAA Division II era, back-to-back Southwest Divisional Championships in 2025 and 2026, and multiple conference tournament appearances. Under her leadership, the team achieved its best start in school history at 13-3 and earned recognition in the D2CSC Women's Basketball Rankings during the 2025 season.
Brooks coached five all-conference players and recruited an Academic All-American while emphasizing success both on and off the court. Her teams maintained a 3.5 GPA or higher for all five years and averaged more than 160 hours of community service annually. She also established seven community partnerships and helped generate nearly $100,000 through camps, sponsorships, fundraising initiatives, and guarantee games.
Prior to Shorter, Brooks served as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Auburn University at Montgomery from 2019-21, helping the program improve by seven wins while producing Academic All-Americans and all-conference performers. She also coordinated recruiting, scheduling, scouting, camps, travel, and compliance operations.
Brooks also spent two seasons at Snead State Community College, where she helped lead the program to a 13-win improvement and an ACCC Tournament appearance while mentoring six NJCAA Academic All-Americans.
Recognized as one of the rising coaches in women's basketball, Brooks earned WBCA Thirty Under 30 honors in 2020 and has twice been selected as a Women's Coaches Next Up nominee.
Brooks earned a master's degree in applied technology with a concentration in Website Development and Coding from Alabama State University in 2017. She received her bachelor's degree in communications with a focus in Public Relations and Advertising from Spring Hill College in 2014 after earning an associate degree from Wallace State Community College.
Brooks attended Hanceville High School in Hanceville, Ala. where she holds the school and Cullman County record for most career points scored by a female basketball player, amassing 2,715 points over her high school career. She prepped at Wallace State Hanceville Community College where she was a member of the Alabama Community College Conference Championship team in 2011. She went on to spend three seasons at Spring Hill College where she holds records for most 3 pointers made in a game (7) and is top 5 for most in a season (93).
