La’Sheena Brooks enters her first season as an assistant women’s basketball coach at Coppin State University for the 2026-27 season after serving five seasons as head coach at Shorter University.
 
During her tenure at Shorter from 2021-26, Brooks led 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 the 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).

She is also married to Joseph and they have one daughter, Zori.