Nikki Flores

Biography

Nikki Flores joined the Demon Deacons women's basketball staff as an assistant coach ahead of the 2022-23 season. She also oversees all recruiting efforts for the program. During Flores’ first season working with the program, the Deacs tied the most since the 2011-12 season, defeated four NCAA Tournament teams including wins over two Elite Eight teams and grabbed 12 wins at home, the fourth-highest total in program history. Additionally with Flores leading the guards, Wake Forest finished second in program history with 227 threes made, increased the team’s assist percentage by nearly 20 percent and held ACC opponents at home to just 19.2 percent shooting from three. Leading recruiting efforts, the Demon Deacons signed a top-25 recruiting class according to ESPNW during Flores’ first season on campus. This marks the first time since the 2014 class that the Deacs have signed multiple top-100 players in the same class and just the second time in the ESPNW era. Tutoring guard Jewel Spear, she had one of the best scoring seasons by any player in program history, finishing the 2022-23 season with 546 points, the sixth-highest total by a Demon Deacon. En route to garnering All-ACC honors for the second-consecutive season, Spear had 11 20-plus point games including 30-plus points in wins over Coastal Carolina and Louisville. Spear finished the season with the second-highest three-point total in program history, racking up 93 threes during the season. Defensively in Flores’ first seas