2020-21 TROY WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
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Janae Fontaine
Director of Operations
5th Season | Troy, 2016 | Elba, Ala.
Janae Fontaine enters her fifth season as the Director of Basketball Operations in 2020-21. A Troy graduate, Fontaine served as a special education teacher, basketball and volleyball coach at Carroll High School in Ozark, Ala. Fontaine played collegiate basketball at Enterprise State Community College before serving as the team’s manager. After completing her associate degree at ESCC, she joined the Troy women’s basketball staff as a manager. Fontaine graduated from Troy cum laude with a degree in education in 2016. Fontaine, formerly Janae Carnley, is married to Doug Fontaine of Panama City, Fla. and the couple has one son, Trace.
Cherise Crisman
Athletic Trainer
24th Season | Troy, 1994 | St. Cloud, Fla.
Cherise Crisman enters her 24th year at Troy in 2020-21. A certified athletic trainer, Crisman is entering her 17th season with the women’s basketball program. During her time at Troy, Crisman has also worked with the volleyball, soccer and softball programs. She has also taught in the athletic training curriculum during her entire 23 years. Prior to coming to Troy in 1998, Crisman was the head athletic trainer at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Ala., for two years. Crisman earned her master’s degree from Auburn in 1997 and worked on Auburn’s athletic training staff while pursuing her degree. During that time, she worked with the Tigers’ women’s basketball and track and field programs.
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Crisman graduated from Troy in 1994 with a degree in athletic training.
Shannon Lemons
Strength & Conditioning
10th Season | Alabama, 2008 | Jasper, Ala.
Shannon Lemons joined the Troy staff as an assistant strength and conditioning coach in Aug. 2011 and is entering her 10th season working with the women’s basketball staff in 2020-21. Lemons came to Troy after serving as a graduate assistant at Alabama for two years. Lemons is certified through the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association and USA weight lifting certified. While at Alabama, Lemons assisted with women’s basketball, women’s golf, women’s softball, track and field and swimming & diving programs. Lemons earned her master’s degree in human performance from Alabama in May 2011 and earned a bachelor’s degree in exercise and sport science from Alabama in 2008.
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