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Carlos Funchess
Southern Lady Jaguars
Position	Head coach
Conference	Southwestern Athletic Conference
Personal information
Born	February 13, 1969 (age 55); Magee, Mississippi, U.S.
Listed height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Listed weight	185 lb (84 kg)
Career information
High school	Magee (Magee, Mississippi)
College	Copiah–Lincoln CC (1987–1989); Louisiana–Monroe (1989–1991);
NBA draft	1991: undrafted
Position	Shooting guard
Coaching career	2005–present
Career history
As player:
1992–1993	Sioux Falls Skyforce
1993–1994	Rockford Lightning
As coach:
2005–2018	Southern (assistant)
2018–present	Southern
Career highlights and awards
	As player: Southland co-Player of the Year (1991); 2× First-team All-Southland (1990, 1991); As coach: Maggie Dixon Award (2019); SWAC Coach of the Year (2019); SWAC regular season champion (2019); 2× SWAC tournament champion (2019, 2023);

Carlos Funchess (born February 13, 1969^[1]) is an American college basketball coach for the Southern Lady Jaguars of the Southwestern Athletic Conference. He played college basketball for the Northeast Louisiana (now called Louisiana–Monroe) Warhawks and later professionally for several years.

Funchess was born and raised in Magee, Mississippi. After his prep career he played two seasons at Copiah–Lincoln Community College before transferring to Northeast Louisiana prior to the 1989–90 season. He led the Warhawks to consecutive Southland Conference regular season and tournament championships. As a senior, Funchess averaged 19.4 points and 5.8 rebounds per game and was named Southland Conference co-Player of the Year with teammate Anthony Jones.^[2]

Following his college career, Funchess played professionally in several North American minor leagues as well as in Venezuela.^[3] He played in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) for the Sioux Falls Skyforce and Rockford Lightning. He played 19 games in his CBA career, averaging 5.6 points per game over two seasons.^[1]

After his playing career, Funchess joined the women's basketball coaching staff at Southern University in 2005. In 2018 he was hired as the head coach to replace Sandy Pugh, who left to coach Prairie View A&M.^[2]^[4] His first season was highly successful as the Lady Jaguars went 20–13 and won both the regular season and tournament championships in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). He was named conference coach of the year and was recognized nationally as the Maggie Dixon Award winner as the top first-year head coach.^[5]