Tammi Reiss (Utah, 1997-98)

WNBA	USA Basketball	Overseas	College	High School	Personal
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NO: 32
POS: Guard
HGT: 5-6
DOB: April 2, 1970
SCHOOL: Virginia ‘92

*WHERE IS REISS NOW?

• Head coach at Rhode Island since April 2019, Reiss will serve as an assistant coach for the 2024 U.S. Olympic 3×3 Team.

(*As of February 2024)

WNBA TRANSACTIONS

April 28, 1997	Selected No. 5 by Utah in the 1997 WNBA Draft.
June 9, 1999	Waived by the Starzz.

WNBA REGULAR SEASON CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• Spent two years in the league, both with Utah.
• Averaged 7.7 ppg, 2.8 rog and 3.1 apg during her rookie campaign, and 6.5 ppg, 1.8 rpg and 2.2 apg during her second year in the league.
• Scored career-highs of 17 points three times, last versus Washington on June 13, 1998. She also scored 17 against Charlotte on Aug. 4, 1997, when she dished out a career-best 8 assists.
• During her time in Utah, she also worked with the NBA’s Utah Jazz as a television broadcaster.
• Reiss later served as an assistant coach with Utah and San Antonio from 2001-03.

WNBA REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS

Year	Tm	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1997	UTA	27	28	26	831	72	231	.312	30	101	.297	42	55	.764	29	48	77 / 2.8	87	23	2	61	57	216 / 7.7
1998	UTA	28	22	17	477	54	134	.403	16	54	.296	19	29	.655	14	25	39 / 1.8	48	11	1	25	32	143 / 6.5
Career			50	43	1308	126	365	.345	46	155	.297	61	84	.726	43	73	116 / 2.3	135	34	3	86	89	359 / 7.2

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USA BASKETBALL HIGHLIGHTS

• Played on three USA Basketball junior teams, starting with the 1989 U.S. Olympic Festival West Team that finished with a 1-3 record and in fourth place in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 1990 she played on the U.S. Olympic Festival East Team that won the championship with a 4-0 slate in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and toured as a member of the USA Junior Select Team that posted a 2-2 record in a tour of Canada.

USA BASKETBALL STATISTICS

• Statistics are unavailable for the three junior teams for which Reiss played.

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COLLEGE HIGHLIGHTS

• During her four-year collegiate career at Virginia, the Cavaliers posted a 113-21 (.843) record, advanced to three NCAA Final Fours (1990-92), including the 1991 NCAA Championship game, and played in the 1989 Sweet 16, and won the 1991 and 1992 ACC regular season and the 1990 and 1992 ACC Tournament titles.
• 1992 USBWA and WBCA All-American.
• Named to the 1990 NCAA All-East Regional and 1991 All-Midwest Regional teams.
• Four-time All-ACC second team selection and two-time (1990, 1992) ACC All-Tournament Team.
• Member of the 1992 Academic All-American third team.
• Named to the ACC’s 50th Anniversary Team in 2002.

COLLEGE STATISTICS

YEAR	G	FGM-FGA	PCT	3PM-3PA	PCT	FTM-FTA	PCT	REB/AVG	AST	TO	BLK	ST	PTS/AVG
1988-89	27	96-205	.468	19-39	.487	64-80	.800	69/2.6	77	82	0	30	275/10.2
1989-90	32	166-350	.474	29-66	.439	128-162	.790	91/2.8	98	115	4	44	489/15.3
1990-91	34	187-368	.508	48-121	.397	100-132	.758	97/2.9	108	71	1	54	522/15.4
1991-92	34	184-392	.469	43-108	.398	145-178	.815	143/4.2	97	69	2	39	556/16.4
TOTALS	127	633-1315	.481	139-334	.416	437-552	.792	400/3.1	380	337	7	167	1842/14.5

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HIGH SCHOOL

• Played her prep career for Eldred Central in New York, and won the state title in 1988.

PERSONAL

• Named as an assistant coach for the 2024 U.S. Olympic 3×3 Team on Feb. 8, 2024.
• From 2011-15 Reiss was an assistant coach at San Diego State, Cal State-Fullerton and Syracuse before being hired as the head coach for Rhode Island in April 2019.
• Born in Eldred, New York.
• Has done some acting, appearing in a 1999 episode of the television comedy, Sister Sister; in 2002, she played one of the main characters, Vicki Sanchez, in Juwanna Mann, and played a coach in the made-for-television film Double Teamed. She also appeared in Love and Basketball.

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