Orianna Shillow

Biography

The 2025-26 Marquette men's basketball campaign will mark the first for Orianna Shillow as Director of Operations, Men's Basketball. Shillow arrives in Milwaukee after working the past three seasons with the women's basketball program at Florida Atlantic as director of basketball operations. In her role at FAU, Shillow was responsible for travel and practices, along with liaison duties between the basketball office and departments around athletics. Shillow arrived in Boca Raton after spending 2021-22 as a basketball operations assistant for the BIG EAST Conference. During her tenure there, she assisted with the conference schedule, including tracking television broadcast information and statistics. She was also in charge of coordinating in-game entertainment, marketing and promotions for the men's and women's conference tournaments. Prior to her time at the BIG EAST, Shillow served as a team ambassador for the 2021 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Tournament. She was a liaison between the NCAA and 14 programs to help with daily logistics as well as operational tasks. Shillow was a four-year member of the North Texas women's basketball team from 2015-19. She graduated from North Texas with a bachelor's degree in business administration and business analytics and received her master's in sport commerce from Memphis in 2021. She was a recipient of the John McLendon Postgraduate Scholarship in 2020.