Women's Basketball
Taylor Reed
- Title:
- Assistant Coach/Director of Recruiting
- Email:
- tar0297@utulsa.edu
Taylor Reed joined the Golden Hurricane women's basketball program as an assistant coach in April 2025.
Reed came to Tulsa after spending the previous six seasons at Houston Christian and was the Associate Head Coach for the last two years.
Reed had been part of an HCU staff that routinely saw its rosters place in the top-25 among all NCAA Division I women’s basketball teams for team GPA, including the 2023-24 season when the Huskies ranked 18th nationally. HCU had been in the WBCA Academic Top 25 in each of the last six seasons.
2021-22 was a record-breaking season for HCU women’s basketball as the Huskies won their first Southland Conference regular season title in program history and finished with a conference record of 12-2. The team qualified for the WNIT and played their first D1 postseason game in program history against the Toledo Rockets.
Timia Jefferson was named Player of the Year for the Southland leading her team to the regular season title. Kennedy Wilson and Julija Vujakovic were named Second Team All-Conference while Marilyn Nzoiwu was named to the All-Defensive team.
Off the floor, the Huskies had a program-record five players named to the Southland All-Academic teams. Vujakovic and Jefferson were named to the first team while Wilson, Nzoiwu and Abbey Sutherland were named second team.
The 2020-21 season was one for the books, with the team only playing 22 games in a shortened schedule due to COVID constraints. Finishing with a record of 11-11, the Huskies reached the second round of the Southland Conference Tournament in Katy. Sophomore guard Timia Jefferson was named second team all-conference, leading the Huskies with 15 points per game. Academically, the Huskies once again led the way with a 3.62 team GPA with Julija Vujakovic and Timia Jefferson garnering second team All-Southland Academic team honors.
The 2019-20 season saw the Huskies take the floor with five highly-touted freshmen and a returning class that included five seniors. Timia Jefferson led all freshmen in the Southland Conference in scoring with a 10.2 clip on the year. Junior point guard Megan Valdez-Crader led the Huskies in scoring overall with 11.1 points per game, while Abbey Sutherland and Marilyn Nzowiu featured among the top players in the league in blocked shots. HCU had a couple of big road wins in the non-conference over ORU and ULM and a close game at Texas Tech, before starting conference play. The team posted a 3.723 GPA for the year, with a record-breaking 3.9 GPA in the spring semester. The team had all 15 athletes over a 3.5 for the semester and with cumulative GPAs all above a 3.0 for the first time in the program’s history.
Reed played two seasons at Louisiana Tech, earning CoSIDA Academic All-American honors in her final season in 2018-19. During that campaign, she played in 29 games, averaging 8.2 points and 1.4 rebounds per game, and finished her career ranked fourth all-time in Lady Techsters history with 148 3-pointers made. As a junior, she started all 31 games, averaging 10.9 points, 2.2 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game. Reed also played two seasons at Hutchinson Community College.
A native of Newton, Kan., Reed earned her Bachelor’s in exercise and health promotion from Louisiana Tech in 2019 and went on to earn a Master of Science in kinesiology and sport management from Houston Christian in 2021.
Reed came to Tulsa after spending the previous six seasons at Houston Christian and was the Associate Head Coach for the last two years.
Reed had been part of an HCU staff that routinely saw its rosters place in the top-25 among all NCAA Division I women’s basketball teams for team GPA, including the 2023-24 season when the Huskies ranked 18th nationally. HCU had been in the WBCA Academic Top 25 in each of the last six seasons.
2021-22 was a record-breaking season for HCU women’s basketball as the Huskies won their first Southland Conference regular season title in program history and finished with a conference record of 12-2. The team qualified for the WNIT and played their first D1 postseason game in program history against the Toledo Rockets.
Timia Jefferson was named Player of the Year for the Southland leading her team to the regular season title. Kennedy Wilson and Julija Vujakovic were named Second Team All-Conference while Marilyn Nzoiwu was named to the All-Defensive team.
Off the floor, the Huskies had a program-record five players named to the Southland All-Academic teams. Vujakovic and Jefferson were named to the first team while Wilson, Nzoiwu and Abbey Sutherland were named second team.
The 2020-21 season was one for the books, with the team only playing 22 games in a shortened schedule due to COVID constraints. Finishing with a record of 11-11, the Huskies reached the second round of the Southland Conference Tournament in Katy. Sophomore guard Timia Jefferson was named second team all-conference, leading the Huskies with 15 points per game. Academically, the Huskies once again led the way with a 3.62 team GPA with Julija Vujakovic and Timia Jefferson garnering second team All-Southland Academic team honors.
The 2019-20 season saw the Huskies take the floor with five highly-touted freshmen and a returning class that included five seniors. Timia Jefferson led all freshmen in the Southland Conference in scoring with a 10.2 clip on the year. Junior point guard Megan Valdez-Crader led the Huskies in scoring overall with 11.1 points per game, while Abbey Sutherland and Marilyn Nzowiu featured among the top players in the league in blocked shots. HCU had a couple of big road wins in the non-conference over ORU and ULM and a close game at Texas Tech, before starting conference play. The team posted a 3.723 GPA for the year, with a record-breaking 3.9 GPA in the spring semester. The team had all 15 athletes over a 3.5 for the semester and with cumulative GPAs all above a 3.0 for the first time in the program’s history.
Reed played two seasons at Louisiana Tech, earning CoSIDA Academic All-American honors in her final season in 2018-19. During that campaign, she played in 29 games, averaging 8.2 points and 1.4 rebounds per game, and finished her career ranked fourth all-time in Lady Techsters history with 148 3-pointers made. As a junior, she started all 31 games, averaging 10.9 points, 2.2 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game. Reed also played two seasons at Hutchinson Community College.
A native of Newton, Kan., Reed earned her Bachelor’s in exercise and health promotion from Louisiana Tech in 2019 and went on to earn a Master of Science in kinesiology and sport management from Houston Christian in 2021.
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