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Cheryl Jean-Paul joined the Spartans as the women’s basketball head coach in 2010.

Since coming to TWU, Jean-Paul has built the Spartans program into a perennial playoff contender, highlighted by the 2017-18 season when the Spartans posted a 16-4 record and finished fourth overall in the Canada West playoffs. She has led the Spartans into the Canada West playoffs in five of the last six seasons.

Internationally, Jean-Paul was most recently the head coach of Canada’s FIBA U16 Women’s America’s Championship team in 2019, winning a silver medal. She continues leading the Cadette Women's Program heading into the 2021 FIBA Americas Championship.

Aside from TWU, Jean-Paul has been a key coach within Basketball BC, as head coach of the girls' high performance program this year, having head coached the U17 team to a bronze medal in 2018 as well as several years as a performance analyst, assistant coach and mentor coach for the U15 and U17 girls' programs.

Prior to joining the Spartans, Jean-Paul had over 10 years of coaching experience and a wealth of playing experience. She spent three years as head coach at Red River College where she won a Manitoba Colleges Athletic Conference title in 2009. Prior to that, as head coach of the River East Collegiate junior varsity team, she won three consecutive conference championships and a provincial bronze medal. She was also an assistant coach with the University of Manitoba Bisons women’s basketball team for two years. She was the head coach for Manitoba’s 2009 Canada Games U17 girls’ team and was the women’s head coach for the Manitoba Region of Canada Basketball’s Centre for Performance program.

Jean-Paul is currently working towards her Advanced Coaching Diploma with the Coaches Association of Canada. She earned a Master's of Arts in Leadership from Royal Roads University in 2018.  She has been recognized for her coaching abilities by being awarded the Canada West Coach of the Year for Women's Basketball in 2018, the Jim Bulloch award by the Manitoba Basketball Coaches Association as well as being a Finalist for the Coaching Manitoba High Performance Coach of the Year award.