SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY

Shawn Forrest has been named an assistant men’s basketball coach at SMU, Head Coach Tim Jankovich announced today. Forrest comes to the Hilltop with 18 years of college coaching experience. Forrest was at Western Kentucky the past three seasons (2013-16), where he helped the Hilltoppers to back-to-back 20-win seasons while coaching two-time all-conference selections in T.J. Price and George Fant. Forrest was a standout on the basketball team at Arkansas-Pine Bluff, where he received his bachelor’s degree in 1998. He and his wife, Renea, have three daughters, Abri, Aaliyah and Alyssa. Read More.