The Indiana Fever have really labored with Stephanie White as their brand-new head coach for the 2025 interval, the group announced Friday.
White skilled the Connecticut Sun for two intervals, main the group to a combined 55-25 doc and a pair 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 intervals. 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 relating to White’s future, the Sun revealed onOct 28 that the group and White had really cut up strategies what was apparently a standard selection. Reports had really been flowing that White had really been talking with varied different teams relating to her future.
After these conversations, White will definitely at the moment return to Indiana, the place she skilled for six intervals, starting as an aide in 2011. She was sooner or later marketed to the group’s head coach in 2015, and invested 2 intervals 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 nearly all of her five-season WNBA career with the Fever previous to coming to be a coach.
White told ESPN beforehand right this moment that the choice to go away 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 working police officer and primary supervisor in October.
