2019-20 Women's Basketball Roster
Roster
Shonte Hailes
- Height:
- 5-6
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Quitman, Miss.
- High School:
- Quitman HS
Preseason All-Conference – 2018-19, 2019-20
First-Team All-Conference – 2018-19
C-USA All-Freshman Team – 2016-17
C-USA Player of the Week – 1/29/18, 2/25/19
C-USA Freshman of the Week – 1/9/17
Lady Eagle Thanksgiving Classic All-Classic Team – 2019-20
2019-20 (Senior): Played in 22 games in her final season with the Lady Eagles, starting in 20 of them ... Named Preseason All-Conference USA for the second year in a row ... Suffered injury against Old Dominion (1/30) and missed eight games, returning against Florida Atlantic for her final home game (3/5) ... Scored her 1,000th career point against Mississippi Valley in the Lady Eagle Thanksgiving Classic, which was also her first game of the season to score 30 points (11/29) ... Was named a member of the All-Classic team for the Lady Eagles' tournament ... Led her team in scoring nine times on the season, and seven times as the leader in assists ... Scored in double-digits in 18 games ... Had six games with three 3-pointers ... Had two games with seven assists and five games with five or more assists ... Finished the season with 1,264 points and is No. 15 in the 1,000 Point Club with that total ... Is No. 7 on the career assists list with 444, and is also No. 7 for 3FG percentage at 35.8% and No. 9 for 3PT attempts at 355.
2018-19 (Junior): Played in 30 games in her junior campaign, starting in all of them ... Was named Preseason All-Conference ... Had a streak of four games with perfect free-throw shooting ... Led the team in assists all season and began her ascent on the all-time assists list for Southern Miss, accumulating 132 assists for the season ... Assist leader for 25 games ... Led team in points for 12 games ... Scored the first points of the game in the last three games of the season and in seven games overall ... Scored the first points for Southern Miss in two games ... Had a career-high 33 points against LA Tech at home where she went 11-of-18 from the field (2/23) ... Had a season-high seven rebounds twice, the last against Florida Atlantic (2/2) ... Tallied a career-high six steals against Nicholls in the WBI (3/21) ... Named Player of the Week for C-USA on 2/25 ... Had two games with more than 30 points, with both being against LA Tech (2/9, 2/23) ... Named First-Team All-Conference following the season.
2017-18 (Sophomore): Started in 23 of the 26 games she saw playing time ... Poured in 20 points or more in five contests including a career-high 28 points at UAB (01/18/18) on nine-of-13 shooting from the field, four-of-six from beyond the arc … Her shooting percentage of .529 was the fourth best in the conference … Handed out 5.2 assists per game, second most of any C-USA player … Led the conference in assist to turnover ratio at 2.4, 32nd best in the nation … Her 135 total assists were the third most in the conference … The Quitman, Miss. native led the league in three-point shooting at .452 percent … Went a perfect eight-of-eight from the free throw line vs. Alcorn State (11/24/17).
2016-17 (Freshman): Appeared in 32 games, starting 29 of them ... Averaged 6.4 ppg and 3.4 apg ... Poured in a career high points in back-to-back games vs Northern Kentucky (12/21) and at LA Tech (12/30) ... Dished at least one assist in 23 straight games ... Logged a double-double at UTEP (1/07) ... Had double-digit scoring figures in five games ... Shot 1.000 from the charity stripe in seven games ... C-USA Freshman Player of the Week for Jan. 9 ... 2017 C-USA All-Freshman Team.
High School: Attended Quitman High School and was coached by Gina Skelton ... Averaged 11.8 points, 3.5 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.9 steals during her 90-game career ... Nominated to the North/South All-Star Basketball Game and the Mississippi/Alabama All-Star Game ... Played on the Southern Phenom AAU team under Coach Robert Wilson.
Personal: Daughter of Herman Hailes and Shannon Johnson ... A Sports Management major ... Had the same high school head basketball coach as former Lady Eagle Lauren Pittman, Gina Skelton ... Nickname is "Dump".
