Women's Basketball

Megan Lanham enters her second season with the Rhode Island women's basketball program in 2010-11, after serving as the associate head coach at Southern Illinois for the past two years. Prior to joining the Rams' staff, Lanam spent two years as the associate head coach at Southern Illinois and eight at Indiana State, including six years as the recruiting coordinator. During the 2005-06 campaign, the Sycamores recorded a school-record 27 victories, registering a 16-2 record in Missouri Valley Conference play, en route to the program's first-ever outright MVC championship. As an assistant coach in 2002-03, Lanham was instrumental in the Sycamores' capturing of their first ever regular season Missouri Valley Conference Championship. In 2001-02, ISU set school records for three-point field goals made and attempted in a season. Off the court, Indiana State won several WBCA Academic Excellence Awards and led the country with a team grade-point average of 3.602 in 2005. Lanham was inducted into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2002. Prior to ISU, Lanham spent one season each as an assistant coach at Loyola (Ill.) and Manhattan College. She began her coaching career at Illinois Central College in 1996-97. While at Illinois Central, the team finished third (1996) and fourth (1997) in the nation. As the point guard at ICC from 1992-93, Lanham helped the team to back-to-back national championships. A native of Sheffield, Ill., Lanham received her master's degree in communications in 2001 from Indiana State. She graduated with a B.S. in education in 1996 from Winona State. updated: 7/8/10