Shelly Ethridge
Coach Women's Basketball
First Year
E-mail: methridge1@stlcc.edu

Coach Ethridge (Coach E) takes over the helm as Meramec’s head basketball coach for the 09-10 season. Ethridge has twelve years of Head Coaching experience at the collegiate level. She has compiled a sparkling collegiate record of 201-124. She had eight consecutive winning seasons, including four years in Division II and five years at the junior college level. Ethridge turned around two struggling basketball programs, building winning traditions and graduating a high percentage of student-athletes.

Coach Ethridge was hired at Belleville Area College (Southwestern Illinois College) in 1991 where she inherited a program with only 14 wins in the previous six seasons. Ethridge created a winning program (.705 winning percentage) ranked nationally in both academics and athletics over five years. Coach E was twice named Great Rivers Athletic Conference Coach of the Year (1992/93, 1995/96).

In 1997 Coach Ethridge became the 7th Head Coach in UMSL school history, taking over a team with only five winning seasons in the previous 23 years, and none since 1993. She led the team to their first-ever appearance in the NCAA Division II Tournament (2000). Ethridge was able to compile four consecutive winning seasons in the Great Lakes Valley Conference.

Ethridge is a graduate of Eastern Illinois University where she was a four year starter and played in the1990 NCAA tournament. In 1997 Ethridge was a featured speaker "Rebuilding a Program" at the NCAA DI tournament in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she was on a panel with Pat Head-Summit (Tennessee), and Vivian Stringer (Rutgers). In 1991 Ethridge was a member of the Olympic Festival Basketball team. Coach Ethridge is a graduate of Mater Dei High School in Breese, IL, where she was an all-state selection.  In 1995, Ethridge was inducted into the Mater Dei Hall of Fame. She received her Master’s of Education in 2000, from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.