Shannon Frowiss Phipps

Despite all her success in college basketball, Shannon Frowiss Phipps remembers defeating mighty Buena during her senior season with the Santa Barbara High Dons as her favorite sports moment.

The talented forward averaged a double-double her final year with the Dons in 1987-88, collecting a bevy of awards in the process including Channel League MVP, Street & Smith All-American and All-CIF. Her career totals of 1,372 points and 854 rebounds rank among the best in Dons history.

From Santa Barbara to Malibu, Frowiss Phipps had no less success at the NCAA level while at Pepperdine.

With the Waves, she earned All-West Coast Conference honors three times. She led Pepperdine in scoring and rebounding for three years straight from 1990 to 1992. Her shooting percentage of 60.8 percent her junior year remains a single-season school record. In fact, Frowiss Phipps is all over the Pepperdine record books. She is No. 3 in career conference scoring average at 16.3 points per game. All three of her career-high 30-point games came in conference play.

Frowiss Phipps was consistently good at Pepperdine, leading the Waves in scoring, rebounding, field-goal percentage and free-throws made in each of her three seasons there. Her senior season the Waves finished 17-11 and were knocked out of the first WCC Tournament ever played. She points to losing in the tournament and missing out on a conference title with Pepperdine was one of her toughest athletic moments.

Frowiss Phipps was a four-year starter at Santa Barbara High in girls’ basketball and softball.

Shannon is now a mother of three with husband Tim Phipps. The family lives in Valencia.