Monique Whaley-Briggs enters her third season on the Tarleton State coaching staff. The 2025-26 season marks her second year as Assistant Women's Basketball Coach/Director of Player Development. She spent her first season as an assistant in 2023-24.
A former guard as a player, Whaley-Briggs plays a key role leading the development of the Texans' guards while assisting with scouting and recruiting. Tarleton State set a Division I program record 20 wins en route to its first-ever Division I postseason, playing in the second round of the WNIT in Whaley-Briggs' second season. The 2024-25 team was also on top in several statistical categories in the WAC, leading the conference in field goal percentage defense (38.6), free throw percentage (75.0), rebounding margin (7.2) and rebounds per game (38.03).
Whaley-Briggs played an instrumental role in helping guard Jakoriah Long to All-WAC Second Team honors. She also helped senior guard Arieona Rosborough make the transition to Division I basketball, where Rosborough broke four single season program records. During the historic 2024-25 season, three of Tarleton State's top four leading scorers were guards.
In Whaley-Briggs' first season on staff in 2023-24, the Texans won three of their final four regular season games to advance to the WAC Tournament. It was their first postseason conference tournament appearance at the NCAA Division I level. Defensively, the Texans were a top-five team in the conference most of the season, finishing second in scoring defense (65.4), second in blocks (3.9), fourth in opposing field goal percentage (.392) and fourth in opposing three-point percentage (.305).
Whaley-Briggs was hired on June 22, 2023, joining head coach Bill Brock’s staff.
“We are excited that Monique has decided to join our staff at Tarleton,” Brock said at the time of her hiring. “She brings a wealth of knowledge in numerous areas that will help us build and develop our program. Our players will definitely benefit from the energy, enthusiasm and passion that Mo brings everyday for the game of basketball.”
Whaley-Briggs arrived in Stephenville after spending three seasons as an assistant coach at Cochise College (2021-23) and UTSA (2020-21).
“Every day is a great day to be a Texan and I am honored and extremely grateful for the opportunity to spend my days here at Tarleton amongst a great staff with bounds of experience and knowledge,” Whaley-Briggs said at the time of her hiring. “I want to thank Coach Brock for presenting me the opportunity to work alongside him and our amazing staff. He is a winner with high character and integrity. I couldn’t ask for a better leader. I am excited to get to work and wake up every day ready to serve the Tarleton community. Go Texans!”
In 2022-23, Whaley-Briggs helped lead the Apaches of Cochise College to a 28-6 overall record, including a 19-3 spot in conference play. Cochise College advanced to the district championship game, then upset No. 10 Collin College in the opening round of the NJCAA Women's Basketball National Tournament, who entered the game at 29-2. Whaley-Briggs coached a NJCAA All-American and the Region 1 Player of the Year that season.
Whaley-Briggs spent the 2020-21 season as an assistant coach at UTSA where they competed in Conference USA.
She spent 2018-20 as a graduate assistant at Texas Tech. In the 2019-20 season, Texas Tech finished 18-11 overall with Whaley-Briggs on staff. They ended the season on a high note, defeating Oklahoma 106-94 in Norman. That was the last game of the season as the conference tournament and postseason were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the summer of 2018, Whaley-Briggs spent time as a strength and conditioning intern with the Red Raiders, working with men’s and women’s basketball.
Before interning at Tech, she spent the 2016-17 year as a student athletic trainer at Duke where she worked with the field hockey, men’s track, swimming & diving and wrestling teams her last year as a student.
Whaley-Briggs also spent a year as the Warren County High School strength and conditioning coach in Virginia. She worked with football, basketball, tennis, cross country, soccer, golf and volleyball. Whaley-Briggs was also an athletic trainer for Mariah Parham Health the same year.
Before her coaching career began, she played five seasons at North Carolina Central from 2012-17. Her best season came in 2015-16, where she won the NCCU Women's Basketball Coach's Award. That season she played in all 28 games in her junior season, including 18 starts. Whaley-Briggs averaged 4.1 points and 1.5 rebounds per game, totaling 115 points, 41 rebounds, 18 assists and 13 steals.
The Philadelphia native earned her master’s degree in interdisciplinary studies with an emphasis in educational leadership and mass communications from Texas Tech in 2020. Her undergraduate degree field was in athletic training where she earned her degree from North Carolina Central in 2017. She graduated from G.W. Carver H.S. of Engineering and Science in 2012.
