The Indiana Fever have truly labored with Stephanie White as their brand-new head coach for the 2025 interval, the group announced Friday.
White educated the Connecticut Sun for two durations, main the group to a combined 55-25 doc and a couple of straight playoff seems. She received WNBA Coach of the Year in 2023, her very first yr in Connecticut.
White adjustments Christie Sides, that was discharged by the Fever onOct 27 after 2 durations. Sides led Indiana to its very first playoff look in 8 years this earlier interval, previous to acquiring brushed up by White’s Sun within the preliminary.
After weeks of conjecture concerning White’s future, the Sun revealed onOct 28 that the group and White had truly cut up strategies what was apparently a standard alternative. Reports had truly been flowing that White had truly been talking with numerous different teams concerning her future.
After these conversations, White will definitely at the moment return to Indiana, the place she educated for six durations, starting as an aide in 2011. She was in some unspecified time in the future marketed to the group’s head coach in 2015, and invested 2 durations as a result of placement previous to delegating coach Vanderbilt girls’s basketball.
White is likewise an Indiana indigenous, and was a standout girls’s basketball gamer at Purdue; she invested the vast majority of her five-season WNBA career with the Fever previous to coming to be a coach.
White told ESPN beforehand right now that the choice to depart Connecticut was produced each skilled and particular person components. “It’s not an easy decision to leave Connecticut, but I think the best one for my family and my career,” White knowledgeable ESPN.
In enhancement to White signing up with the group, Indiana will definitely start following interval with a brand-new entrance office, with Kelly Krauskopf being hired as head of state in September and Amber Cox hired as major operating police officer and fundamental supervisor in October.
