Shannon Osborne is back on the west coast as the new head women's basketball coach at Menlo College."I am extremely excited about adding Shannon to our staff," stated Keith Spataro, the Menlo AD. "She is very passionate about coaching and her experiences are invaluable to our department. She is highly educated and very driven, which marks for a great coach. I look forward to watching her grow in her new role."

Osborne comes to Menlo after serving a one-year stint at Fordham, a Division 1 NCAA institution. Prior to that, she was an assistant coach at Lynn University in Florida, helping rebuild a program that was 5-22 to a 17-11 mark her final year.
She spent the 2001-02 season at San Jose State as an assistant coach where she helped the Spartans to a school high 4th place finish in the WAC. From 1999-2001, she was an administrative assistant with the University of Kansas. The Seattle-area native also spent one season as an assistant at Texas-Pan American and served as an assistant girl's basketball coach at her alma mater Redmond (WA) High School from 1996-98. Osborne also gained experience on the AAU circuit, directing the Seattle-area Players Only squad in the summer of 1998.

She inherits an Oaks team which finished 14-13 in 2007-08, but returns two-time All-Cal Pac guard Kelci Fushikoshi who is back for her senior year.