Sheronda Mayo-Powell begins her fourth season as an assistant women's basketball coach at LeTourneau University.
Along with former head coach Leslie Reinecker, Mayo-Powell helped coach the YellowJackets to the American Southwest Conference Tournament for the third and fourth times in program history. In addition, they became the first LeTourneau basketball team in school history to win a post-season game with an 86-78 win in the 2016 ASC Tournament Quarterfinals over Hardin-Simmons to reach the semifinals.
The YellowJackets were led by junior Crystal Jones, who went on to earn numerous honors, including third team D3Hoops.com All-Region, ASC Newcomer of the Year, first team all-ASC, first team all-ASC East Division, the ASC All-Defensive Team and the ASC All-Tournament Team. Jones was joined on the all-ASC team by LaTanya Drakes and Ashley Stephens, who were each selected second team all-ASC East Division. Stephens was also named the ASC East Division Defensive Player of the Year. Seven student-athletes were named to the ASC All-Academic Team.
Prior to coming to LeTourneau, Mayo-Powell spent five years at Three Rivers Community College in Popular Bluff, Missouri as an assistant coach in addition to duties as assistant housing director, housing coordinator, and student services specialist counselor. While at Three Rivers as an assistant coach, Mayo-Powell was responsible for academic course scheduling, probation disciplinarian monitoring, and academic course tracking for all female athletes in addition to her coaching duties which saw her implement all strength and conditioning programs for summer and pre-season workouts.
In her five years at Three Rivers Community College, Mayo-Powell helped the Lady Raiders win two conference championship titles. One where they went undefeated and a co-conference title and a regional championship runner-up performance while assisting the head coach to three conference Coach of the Year awards. Numerous players earned academic all-conference honors. Three were selected academic all-american and two went on to play at the NCAA Division I level with one of the two being named a third-team all-american.
Mayo-Powell has also been involved in the women's basketball program as an assistant coach at Macomb Community College and Detroit Country Day School and served as a volunteer junior varsity coach at Concordia University.
At Macomb Community College, Mayo-Powell helped guide the program to a berth in the tournament and integral to the tutelage of a third-team all-conference honoree. Mayo-Powell designed, created, and implemented all pre-practice routines for all players and was in charge of post player development in addition to assisting with practice and game day defensive strategies while also serving as the Assistant Camp Director.
At Concordia, Mayo-Powell led the junior varsity team to a winning record and worked with the varsity team on its defensive practice and game-day strategies while her stint at Detroit Country Day High School saw her assist high school hall of fame coach Frank Orlando to two state championships 10 years apart.
Mayo-Powell also has head coaching experience from when she directed the program at Trinity Washington University, an NCAA Division III Institution in Washington, D.C. where the Tigers fell one game shy of qualifying for the conference tournament.
Mayo-Powell started her coaching career as an NCAA Division II graduate assistant at Wayne State University, where she was involved in the scouting, tape exchange, academic monitoring and initiated the start of a community mentoring program, the Junior Tartars, and helped contribute to the best season in 15 years of the program by becoming co-conference champions with Michigan Tech.
Mayo-Powell was a four-year letter winner at NCAA Division I and Big Ten Conference member, Michigan State University. As a freshman, she was named the team's Freshman Athlete of the Year and the Most Improved Player. During her sophomore season, Mayo-Powell was recognized as the team's MVP. Mayo-Powell also garnered All-Big Ten and All-America candidate pre-season honors before suffering a career-ending knee injury during her senior year with the Spartans.
After her college days, Mayo-Powell participated in a pair of tours with Athletes in Action that went to Russia and other colleges and universities throughout the United States before playing professionally in China and Spain.
Mayo-Powell has her bachelor's degree in communication from Michigan State and a master's in sports administration from Wayne State University.
Mayo-Powell and her husband, Aaron live in Longview.
