 Milena Flores |
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College:
Stanford '01
Years at Yale:
2nd Season
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Position:
Assistant Coach
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Former WNBA and Stanford point guard Milena Flores is entering her second season as an assistant women's basketball coach at Yale. She is responsible for guard development on Joel E. Smilow Class of 1954 Head Coach Chris Gobrecht's staff.
A Division I assistant coach for the past four seasons, Flores has played professionally for the WNBA's Miami Sol and Lithuania's Lietuvos Telekomas. She was a three-year starter for nationally ranked teams at Stanford and was awarded the NCAA post-graduate scholarship in 2000.
"Milena Flores is everything the game of women's basketball needs, and she is an especially good fit for Yale," Gobrecht said. "She coaches with intelligence and commitment, she expects excellence while also delivering respect and care for her players, and she firmly believes in a balance of academics and athletics.
"I am very happy that the women's basketball players at Yale will have Milena as one of their coaches, and thrilled to have her talents and hard work to help lead Yale to the top of the Ivy League."
Flores began her coaching career at the University of the Pacific, where she was an assistant coach from 2002-04. She then moved on to Lehigh, where she was in charge of guard development in 2004-05. In her only season at Lehigh, the Mountain Hawks posted a 19-10 record and earned the No. 2 seed in the Patriot League tournament with a 10-4 conference mark.
A two-time All-Pac-10 selection at Stanford, Flores helped the Cardinal reach the Final Four in 1997. She made the Pac-10 Academic first team twice and the GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-District VIII team once on the way to a political science degree in 2001.
