Coaching Staff

Amanda Reese enters her second year as head coach of the North Park women’s basketball program. As a former assistant coach for the University of Illinois-Chicago women’s program, Reese brings an eclectic array of experience to the Vikings. In addition to her coaching duties at UIC for the past four years, she served as the lone assistant women’s basketball coach at the University of Chicago and was deemed a ‘Jack of All Trades’ by taking on numerous tasks for the Maroons, including recruiting coordinator and perimeter coach. Prior to her coaching at Chicago, Reese served as the girls’ Assistant Varsity Coach as well as the junior varsity head coach at DeKalb High School during the 1999-2000 school year. She was also a successful student-athlete at Northern Illinois University and Beavercreek High School in Ohio. At NIU, Reese was a three-time team captain for the Huskies and earned MVP honors in 1997. She became one of only 23 players in NIU history to score 1,000 points during her playing career (1,147) and she holds the NIU record for most 10-assist games with five. Her role as a Huskie left a huge impression on the program as NIU now gives the Reese Leadership Award to a student-athlete annually. At Beavercreek High School in Dayton, Ohio, Reese led the Battlin’ Beavers to a 1995 state championship and earned Ms. Ohio Basketball in the same season. She continues to give back to her hometown as she and her high school coach have continued to run the Amanda Reese and Ed Zink Basketball Camp since 2000.

Theodore enters her second year as the North Park women’s basketball assistant coach. She brings a solid athletics’ background to the program. Previously she served as a graduate assistant at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana where she taught undergraduate fitness classes and assisted professors in research. In addition she was an intern in Sport and Exercise Psychology, working with the women’s soccer, women’s basketball and field hockey teams at Ball State, and she also spent time as a Research Team Leader in collaboration with the National Football League. Her coaching experience includes serving as an assistant volunteer coach for the Muncie Central High School girls basketball team and as a Puma League Basketball Camp Volunteer Coach. On top of Theodore’s eclectic background, she is also an accomplished athlete. She was a four-year starter for the women’s basketball program at Saint Joseph’s College in Rensselaer, Ind. where she served as the team captain her junior and senior seasons and was an All-Great Lake Valley Conference Academic team selection all four years. A native of Mount Prospect, Ill., Theodore was a Daily Herald All-Area selection in volleyball, basketball and softball as a member of the Knights.