Women's Basketball
Raina Perez
- Title:
- Assistant Women's Basketball Coach
- Email:
- raina.a.perez@ucr.edu
Raina Perez enters her second year as an assistant coach with UC Riverside Women's Basketball in 2024-25.Â
In her first year at UCR, Perez helped orchestrate the best single-season turnaround in program history and lead UC Riverside to its first postseason appearance since 2015-16.Â
Perez played two years at NC State and two years at Cal State Fullerton in her college career, being named a Lieberman Award finalist and All-ACC Honorable Mention in 2020-21 and an All-ACC Academic Team member in 2021-22.Â
Perez was named the 2019-20 Big West Player of the Year at Cal State Fullerton after being name an All-Big West Honorable Mention selection a year prior.Â
Perez signed a WNBA training camp contract with the Seattle Storm after her time at NC State, playing in one preseason game for the Storm.Â
In her first year at UCR, Perez helped orchestrate the best single-season turnaround in program history and lead UC Riverside to its first postseason appearance since 2015-16.Â
Perez played two years at NC State and two years at Cal State Fullerton in her college career, being named a Lieberman Award finalist and All-ACC Honorable Mention in 2020-21 and an All-ACC Academic Team member in 2021-22.Â
Perez was named the 2019-20 Big West Player of the Year at Cal State Fullerton after being name an All-Big West Honorable Mention selection a year prior.Â
Perez signed a WNBA training camp contract with the Seattle Storm after her time at NC State, playing in one preseason game for the Storm.Â
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