Lewis comes to Statesboro after a highly decorated career as a collegiate student-athlete at both UCF and Old Dominion, while also playing professionally overseas in Slovakia, Bulgaria and Israel. The Poulan, Ga., native was the Conference USA Freshman of the Year in 2007-08 at UCF, then earned All-CAA honors twice while finishing her career at ODU. In her four seasons collegiately, Lewis scored 1,624 points and grabbed 1,124 rebounds. After her professional playing career, Lewis started coaching at the high school level as the head varsity girls basketball coach at Denbigh HS in Newport News, Va., in 2015. She led the Lady Patriots to their first playoff berth and playoff victory since 1998-99. Moving back to her hometown of Poulan, Ga., Lewis then became the head coach at Turner County HS in 2018, leading the Titans to the Sweet 16 in her first year, and to the State Final Four.