John Ishee heads into his second season as head coach for the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team. He served as the program's acting head coach from Nov. 9, 2006 until March 5, 2007, when he was officially named the team's head coach. Ishee had rejoined the Southeast coaching staff in the summer of 2006 after coaching the last three years in the state of New Mexico. He was a volunteer assistant at Southeast in 2002-03. Ishee currently holds a collegiate head coaching record of 53-29 (.646 winning percentage).

Ishee guided the Redhawks to the best single-season mark in the program's NCAA Division I history by posting a 24-8 record, their first outright Ohio Valley Conference regular-season title in school history along with their second straight OVC Tournament championship and NCAA Tournament appearance. For his efforts, Ishee was named the 2007 OVC Coach of the Year, while two players (Lachelle Lyles and Missy Whitney) captured All-OVC accolades. Southeast ranked first among the OVC leaders in several categories, including defensive field goal percentage.

Ishee, a 20-year veteran at the collegiate level, came to Southeast from New Mexico Highlands University, an NCAA Division II institution, where he served as head coach of the Cowgirls' basketball team in which he recorded a 7-11 record that season.

During the 2001-02 season, he finished with a 22-10 record at the helm of the women's basketball program at Life University in Georgia. He guided the Runnin' Eagles to a No. 18 ranking and a Sweet 16 appearance in the NAIA Division I National Tournament before Life University dropped collegiate athletics late that summer, which led Ishee to his first stint at Southeast.

After leaving Southeast, Ishee moved on to New Mexico State University, where he served as the team's top assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for two seasons. During the 2003-04 season, he helped lead the Aggies to the program's first and only Sun Belt Conference Tournament semifinal appearance. That team also earned the program's only victory against a top-25 nationally ranked opponent. His 2004-05 recruiting class was rated one of the top-50 in the nation by the All-Star Girls Basketball Report.

Prior to his head coaching stint at Life University he served as an assistant at Saint Louis University for one season and spent three seasons at Ole Miss as the team's recruiting coordinator. During his stint at Ole Miss, the Lady Rebels made the Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) in 2000.

During the 1996-97 season, the Gulfport, Miss., native was with McNeese State University as the team's Associate Head Coach, where the Cowgirls made it to the Southland Conference tournament semifinals with a record of 17-9. It was the ninth-best turnaround in the NCAA that season.

In 1995, he was an assistant coach at the University of Pacific, who made an appearance at the Big West Conference tournament championship game.

From 1991 thru 1994, he served as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Southern Mississippi. Those teams made two NCAA Tournament appearances, including a Sweet 16 appearance during the 1993-94 season. Ishee recruited and help lead the squad to a school best national ranking and finished with a record of 26-5.

He served as a graduate assistant coach for the Southern Mississippi men's team from 1989 thru 1991, assisting the team to a 1990 NCAA Tournament appearance.

From 1987-1989, he served as the head coach for both the men's and women's basketball teams at Prentiss High School in Prentiss, Miss. There he captured two division championships and two state playoff berths while compiling a combined record of 77-40 at the prep level.

Ishee received both his Bachelor's of Science and Master's Degree in Educational Administration from Southern Mississippi. The son of John and Opal Ishee, he is single and resides in Cape Girardeau.