Beginning her third season at the helm, Shannon Reidy and her staff are anxious to take the next step and reach the upper echelon of the Horizon League. Featuring a roster that featured the extremes of four seniors and five freshmen - with just three players in the middle two classes - the Ramblers found themselves in nearly every contest but struggled to close out victories. WIth those talented freshmen now sophomores, Reidy and the Ramblers look to continue to make strides.

Last season, Reidy mentored a pair of All-Horizon League honorees, as Marquise Hanser, honored for the second consecutive season under Reidy, and Jenna Real earned postseason awards. Both reached the 1,000 career point milestone last season and Real closed out her career as the school's all-time leader in field goal percentage. In addition to those two solid seniors, Maggie McCloskey burst onto the scene with a terrific freshman campaign. McCloskey's 72 three-point field goals rank second on Loyola's single-season chart and her eight treys at Green Bay tied LU's single-game record. A member of the Horizon League All-Newcomer team, McCloskey was just one of five freshman that were key contributors last season.

Loyola improvement came on the heels of a 2005-06 season in which Reidy and her staff began implementing a change in mindset that will positively affect the program for years to come. Building around core values of accountability and integrity, Reidy and the Ramblers laid the foundation that is vital in building a successful program. The Ramblers improved in each and every outing that season, riding the dynamic all-around game of Hanser, who became just the fourth different player in Loyola history to score 500 points in a single season.

Reidy made the move to the North Side after seven successful years as the head coach of Marian Catholic High School. In her seven years at Marian Catholic, Reidy helped turn around a program which had just one 20-win season prior to her arrival into a perennial contender for the Illinois state championship, leading her team downstate three consecutive seasons from 2002-04. After recording a 21-8 mark in 2001, Reidy and her charges emerged in earnest in 2002, posting a 31-2 record and advancing to the IHSA Class AA Championship game before settling for runner-up honors. Marian made a return trip downstate the following season, finishing 29-4 before falling in the Elite Eight and finished the 2003-04 season with a 27-8 ledger, taking home the fourth-place trophy. Last season, the Spartans finished with a 28-3 record, giving the program an impressive 115-17 (.871) record over the last four seasons, and the squad has appeared in the USA Today national rankings in three different seasons.

Reidy is a three-time recipient of the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association District 8 Coach of the Year award (2002-04) and has earned the same honor from both the Daily Southtown (2002, 2005) and the Illinois Times (2003). Last season, four of her graduating seniors earned scholarships to Division I institutions, giving her seven such players over the last four years.

Reidy graduated from Lake Forest College in 1994, where she was a four-year letterwinner for the Foresters women's basketball team, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration/ Economics and special emphasis in education.