Michelle Guyant-Holloway, just the second full-time women's basketball coach in university history, is preparing for a sixth year at the helm of the SU women's basketball program.

Guyant-Holloway took the Winchester/Frederick County community and the USA South Conference by storm in 2006-07 as she led the Hornets to their best season since the 1999-2000 campaign.

Shenandoah won 17 games in 2006-07, including nine in the USA South, and won the Lebanon Valley and SU Shootout in-season tournaments.

Her club also had three players: Alicia Sanders, Cassie Womack and Alexis Hargbol, earn All-USA South Conference honors.

Sanders became the first SU women's player to be named first team all-league in seven years and Hargbol was the runner-up for the league's Rookie of the Year award.

Guyant-Holloway came to Shenandoah in June 2006 after serving as the lead assistant coach at Division II Northern Michigan University from 1998-2005. Previous to her experience at the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference school, she served as the interim head coach at Dodge City (Kan.) Community College for the 1997-98 season.

A 1997 Northern Michigan grad who also received her master's degree from NMU in 2004, Guyant-Holloway was part of a staff that led the Wildcats to five NCAA appearances in her seven seasons with two of the squads reaching the regional championship game.

As a player, Guyant-Holloway played on two GLIAC Tournament championship teams and was the GLIAC Tournament MVP in 1995. Her 1996 team also won the North Region championship and participated in the NCAA DII Elite Eight as she was named first team All-GLIAC and second team All-Great Lakes Region.

In addition to her duties as the head women's basketball coach, Guyant-Holloway serves SU as the Athletic Department's Compliance Officer. In this role, Guyant-Holloway certifies all student-athletes for intercollegiate athletic competition and is the department's primary contact for NCAA rules interpretations.

Guyant-Holloway and her husband, Phil, will be celebrated their 10-year anniversary in 2010. They currently live in Winchester.

The newest addition to the women's basketball staff is former Georgetown University standout Meredith Cox.

Cox, who played for the Hoyas for four seasons, joined the SU women's hoops staff as a volunteer assistant with D.C. area recruiting in December 2010.

For the 2011-12 season, Cox heads to the bench to assist head coach Michelle Guyant-Holloway in all aspects of the program.

Additionally, she served the department this summer as an administrative intern as part of her graduate requirements at Georgetown.

At Georgetown, Cox was a two-year starter for the Big East power and earned All-Big East academic honors in each of her four seasons.

Off the court, she was the President of the Georgetown Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and was selected for the GU student-athlete veteran leader program. Only 40 students in a student-athlete population of 600 are selected for this program.

Cox also has extensive camp experience including stints with her alma mater and with the Washington Mystics of the WNBA.

In addition to her coaching duties, Cox works as the assistant director of Alumni Affairs at SU.

Back for his second year on Michelle Guyant-Holloway's staff is 2010 Shenandoah graduate Willie Lewis.

Lewis, who graduated from SU with a Kinesiology degree and minored in coaching, is involved in all aspects of the Hornets program.

In addition to his one year on the Hornets staff, Lewis has served as an assistant coach with Winchester Athletics Associates and various youth leagues.