Over the past seven seasons, Peoples has helped direct the Red Wolves to 123 victories - an average of nearly 18 wins per year. Three times during that span, the Red Wolves have posted 20-victory seasons, and in 2003-04 the Red Wolves captured their first-ever Sun Belt Conference title, winning the East Division Championship. In 2004-05, ASU won 21 games and advanced to the quarterfinals of the WNIT, and in the 2005-06 season achieved 21 victories again, advancing to the second round of the WNIT before falling on the road to eventual runner-up Wisconsin.
Peoples, a native of Buckeye, Arizona, coaches the Red Wolves guards and is a recruiting assistant for A-State with an emphasis on underclass recruiting. She assists in the scouting of ASU opponents and handles game scheduling.
Peoples coordinates the ASU home practice schedule and is the liaison to the strength and conditioning program. She is also the director of the individual and elementary summer camps.
Additionally, Peoples leads the Red Wolves team each year in their United Way Day of Caring by conducting monthly afterschool clinics with City Youth Ministries. She also proudly coordinates and markets The WBCA Pink Zone(tm) game, to be played this year on Feb. 20 against Western Kentucky. The WBCA Pink Zone(tm) initiative is a global, unified effort for the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's (WBCA) nation of coaches to assist in raising breast cancer awareness on the court, across campuses, in communities and beyond. Last year was A-State's first Pink Zone promotion, and Peoples centered the event around the unprecedented move of placing the name of local cancer-surviving "heroes" on the back of the players' jerseys.
Peoples joined the ASU staff after spending time as an assistant coach at Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas, NV where she helped five players sign on with Division I programs and coached three nationally-ranked guards. Prior to her stint in Las Vegas, she coached at Northern Arizona University, where she was an assistant coach and the recruiting coordinator. Her coaching duties consisted of working with perimeter players and helping with team defense. In 2000, the NAU recruiting class was tabbed as the top recruiting class in the Big Sky Conference.
Peoples began her college career serving as an assistant coach at Yavapai College in Prescott, Ariz. from 1998 to 1999. She assisted with both men's and women's basketball programs. While there, she helped both teams to 20-win seasons and signed eight top Arizona female student-athletes. Her responsibilities at Yavapai were as the women's basketball recruiting coordinator, an academic tutor, a Wellness Center Strength Instructor, a physical education teacher and the camp director.
Peoples coached five years of high school basketball in Tucson, Ariz. before making the jump to the college ranks. At Amphitheater High School, she coached four years of girls basketball. Peoples started her career at Green Fields High in Tucson, where she served as varsity boy's assistant coach before moving to AHS.
Now in her 16th year of coaching, Peoples received her degree in physical education from Prescott College in 1997. She is married to Arkansas State defensive line coach Kevin Peoples.
