Queens University of Charlotte Athletics

After serving as Queens University of Charlotte's interim head men's rugby coach during the 2025 spring 7s season, Tyree Reed was officially named head coach of the Queens men's rugby team. He is just the second person to ever lead the program.
  
Reed took over the men's rugby program following a successful 2024 fall season that saw the Royals win the Rugby East South Division title for the second time in three years and advance to the NCR Division I National Championship final, where they fell to Brown University. It was Queens' second time playing in the national championship final since transitioning the varsity program from Division II to Division I. At the close of the season, former head coach Frank McKinney stepped down, and Reed stepped up to the occasion, leading the Royals through a successful spring season.
 
In addition to helping the Royals capture the 2019 USA Rugby Division II national championship, Reed has taken part in the development of multiple players from the program now playing professionally. This spring, Hilton Olivier was named one of 20 nominees for the 2024-25 Rudy Scholz Award.
 
Reed, who was promoted to associate head coach in March 2024, began his coaching career at the high school level, having coached at both East Mecklenburg and Myers Park. He is also a founder and previous head coach, from 2013 to 2015, of Carolina United 7s, where he oversaw the selection of players from the Carolinas, created travel plans for the team to tour the East Coast and coached teams in tournaments throughout the summer. In 2014, the team finished in fourth place in the American High School 7s Championship and seventh place in 2015.
 
Reed also has experience coaching with the North Carolina Youth Rugby Association as an All-Stars assistant coach. As a member of the All-Stars staff, he has scouted and overseen the selection of players and staff, planned activities on All-Star tours — including practices, meetings and meals — and coordinated program and player development of team attack and defensive structure. Under his direction, the state All-Star team became the South Regional champions in 2017 and 2018 and finished third in the South in 2016.

Reed has served as the league commissioner at the North Carolina High School Rugby Association since 2014. He earned a bachelor's degree in sport and fitness administration/management in 2023 from Queens and is currently enrolled in the MBA program at the McColl School of Business.