Alexandrea “Allie” Banks comes to the University of Arkansas at Monticello after just graduating Summa Cum Lada from Central Baptist College in just three years. Banks is currently enrolled in the Sports Management Graduate Program at the University of Central Arkansas. She brings a ton of youth and knowledge of the game from being a student assistant for both the men’s and women’s side of CBC.
"It's not everyday that you have the opportunity to meet someone like Coach Banks. She is one of the hardest workers that I have been around and is going to be a great coach one day,” said UAM Women’ Basketball Head Coach Greg Long. “I have known of Coach Banks for four years and her knowledge of the state of Arkansas is going to be vital to our success.”
Banks played basketball for Crowley Ridge College after leaving high school, but due to a back injury, she had to leave playing the sport she loves the most. If she could not play, she knew that what she wanted more than anything was to become a coach, giving back her knowledge, and showing other young athletes her love of the game of basketball. So, she decided to come back to the Central Arkansas area.
Banks transferred to Central Baptist College in Spring 2017 and began working with the men’s and women’s program at CBC. During her time there, the men’s program went to the NAIA National tournament in 2018. In 2019, the men’s program won the conference tournament, which propelled them again into the NAIA National Tournament in Kansas City, Missouri for the second year in a row, and earned Banks a conference title ring.
Banks also assisted the Athletic Director for the past three years and was a student assistant with the women’s program for one year at CBC. Her duties included recruitment, scouting reports, film set up, practice set up and preparing the gym for game time.
While in college, Banks worked with the youth program the Arkansas Sting, a tournament basketball program located out of Beebe, Arkansas. She also volunteered her time to work with the Beebe Public School youth basketball program, coaching boys and winning a city league title in 2019. She has been the head coach for the elementary and middle school program for Arkansas Sting; developing young ladies from all over Arkansas. Banks also has assisted the Arkansas Sting head coach with the high school girl’s program for the past three years; helping send over 20 young ladies to different colleges across the Mid-West region to play college basketball.
