Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve wins 2nd WNBA Coach of the Year award


Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve was named the 2016 WNBA Coach of the Year, the league announced on Friday.

Per the Lynx website:
"The WNBA announced today that Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve is the recipient of the 2016 WNBA Coach of the Year Award. Reeve received 17 votes from a national panel of 39 sportswriters and broadcasters. This is Reeve’s second Coach of the Year honor, having received the award in 2011, and the third time a Lynx head coach has been named WNBA Coach of the Year (Suzie McConnell Serio 2004). 
Under Reeve’s seven-year tutelage, the Lynx have complied 155 wins over the last six seasons, the most prolific six-year run in WNBA history, and won three WNBA Championships (2011, 2013 and 2015) in a five-year span. Finishing the 2016 season at 28-6, Minnesota registered its fifth 25-win campaign in the last six years and became the first WNBA franchise to win 27+ games in a season three separate times. Since taking over in 2010, Reeve’s .706 winning percentage (168-70) ranks first in league history. She is one of three coaches to win more than 60% of their games (Van Chancellor, .655; Michael Cooper, .616)."
Reeve anchored the Lynx to a league-best 28-6 record, which was just a game shy of tying the 2014 Phoenix Mercury record of 29-5.

She also won the award in 2011 when she led the Lynx to their first-ever franchise title.

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