Stephanie White’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American basketball player
Is Athlete 
Sports coach 
Basketball player 
Basketball coach 
From United States of America 
Type Sports 
Gender female
Birth 20 June 1977, West Lebanon
Age: 43 years

Stephanie Joanne White (born June 20, 1977) is a former professional basketball player and currently the head coach of the Vanderbilt Commodores women’s basketball team.Before accepting the job at Vanderbilt, she was the head coach of the Indiana Fever of the WNBA for the 2015 and 2016 season. As an intercollegiate athlete, she was named the winner of the Wade Trophy in 1999, which recognizes the top female basketball player in the nation.
White was the 1995 Indiana Miss Basketball and was also named 1995 Gatorade National Player of the Year and the USA Today National Player of the Year. White attended Seeger High School in West Lebanon, Indiana, where she was named a High School All-American by the WBCA. She participated in the WBCA High School All-America Game in 1995, scoring seventeen points, and earning MVP honors. She led Purdue University to the 1999 NCAA Women’s National Championship in basketball. She played five years in the WNBA, one with the Charlotte Sting and four with the Indiana Fever. She retired in 2004.
Stephanie White joined the Chicago Sky as an assistant coach in 2007, spending four seasons there until she joined her college coach, Lin Dunn, as the first former WNBA player to serve as an assistant coach on the Fever staff. She was named head coach on September 23, 2014, making her the youngest active coach in the league.

College

White attended Purdue University, where she was named National College Player of the Year, Indiana NCAA Woman of the Year, and Big Ten Conference Player of the Year on the way to leading Purdue to the NCAA National Championship in 1999.

USA Basketball

White competed with USA Basketball as a member of the 1997 Jones Cup Team that won the silver medal in Taipei. Several of the games were close, with the USA team winning four games by six points or fewer, including an overtime game in the semifinal match against Japan. The gold medal game against South Korea was also close, but the USA fell 76–71 to claim the silver medal for the event. White was the second leading scorer for the team, averaging 10.3 points per game.

Awards and honors

  • 1999—Winner of the Honda Sports Award for basketball

Professional

White began her five-year WNBA career with the Charlotte Sting in 1999 under her married name, Stephanie White-McCarty. She was acquired a year later in an expansion draft by the Indiana Fever to lead the team’s inaugural season roster. After four years with the Fever, she ranked third in games played (112) and three point field goals (92), and fourth in scoring (684). She averaged 5.9 points and 2.0 assists per game.

She retired from the WNBA in 2004, and went on to become the assistant coach at Ball State (2003–04), Kansas State (2004–05), and the University of Toledo (2005–06 and 2006–07), before going to the Chicago Sky. White was involved in all aspects of the basketball program, including recruiting, on-floor coaching, scouting, individual workouts and academic support.

Since 2007, White has also served as a college basketball analyst for ESPN and the Big Ten Network, including studio work and co-hosting the network’s coverage of the Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament.

Coaching

After a four-year stint as an assistant, White took over the head coaching duties for the Indiana Fever following Lin Dunn’s retirement. In her first season, she led the Fever to their second WNBA Finals appearance, losing the best-of-five series to Minnesota. Indiana went 20-14 overall in White’s debut season. In here second season with the Fever, White finished the season with a 17-17 record and lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Phoenix Mercury.

On May 23, 2016, White accepted the head coaching job for the Vanderbilt women’s basketball team. She completed the 2016 season with the Fever finishing her time there with a 37-31 overall record and a 6-6 record in the postseason.

Head coaching record

College

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Vanderbilt (Southeastern Conference) (2016–present)
2016–17 Vanderbilt 8–1 0–0
Vanderbilt: 8–1 (.889) 0–0 (–)
Total: 8–1 (.889)

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

WNBA

Legend
Regular season G Games coached W Games won L Games lost W–L % Win-loss %
Post season PG Playoff games PW Playoff wins PL Playoff losses PW–L % Playoff win-loss %
Team Year G W L W–L% Finish PG PW PL PW–L% Result
IND 2015 34 20 14 .588 3rd in East 11 6 5 .545 Lost in WNBA Finals
IND 2016 34 17 17 .500 3rd in East 1 0 1 .000 Lost in First Round
Career 68 37 31 .544 12 6 6 .500

Personal life

White and her spouse, Michelle Fletcher, reside in Nashville, TN with their three young children.

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