Fever announce former WNBA player Stephanie White as new head coach

The Indiana Fever person hired Stephanie White arsenic their adjacent caput coach. 

White, 47, is replacing Christie Sides, who went 20-20 past play and led the squad to its archetypal playoff berth since 2016. 

As a player, White won a nationalist title with Purdue successful 1999 and past was a portion of the Fever’s inaugural squad successful 2000 arsenic a rookie. She played for them from 2000-2004.

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Connecticut Sun caput manager Stephanie White watches from the sideline arsenic they instrumentality connected the Minnesota Lynx during Game 4 of the 2024 WNBA semifinals astatine Mohegan Sun Arena.  (David Butler II/Imagn Images)

White was a subordinate of the Fever coaching unit from 2011-2016. She was an adjunct manager during the team’s 2012 title run. 

Going into the 2015 season, White was promoted to caput coach, starring the Fever to a title berth successful her archetypal twelvemonth successful 2015. 

"As we participate this caller epoch of Fever basketball, I americium thrilled to invited Stephanie backmost to the franchise," said Kelly Krauskopf, the Fever's president of hoops operations. 

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Stephanie White of the Indiana Fever drives against the Washington Mystics during an WNBA crippled astatine Conseco Fieldhouse May 31, 2003, successful Indianapolis. (Ron Hoskins/WNBAE via Getty Images)

"Stephanie is simply a portion of the cloth of this franchise, some arsenic a erstwhile subordinate and arsenic a subordinate of our title coaching staff, truthful I’m rather acquainted with her elite hoops IQ and enactment style. I americium assured determination is nary 1 who amended understands our civilization oregon is much equipped to pb our radical of players to the adjacent level."

After leaving the Fever successful 2016, she was caput manager of Vanderbilt done 2021. In 2023, White returned to the pro ranks arsenic caput manager for the Connecticut Sun, wherever she was 55-23 with the team. 

"I americium incredibly arrogant and honored to instrumentality location to Indiana and pb the Fever during specified a pivotal infinitesimal successful this franchise’s history, arsenic good arsenic during specified an important clip passim women’s athletics," White said successful a statement. 

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Connecticut Sun caput manager Stephanie White during the archetypal fractional against the Minnesota Lynx of Game 1 of the 2024 WNBA semifinals astatine Target Center.  (Matt Krohn/Imagn Images)

"This franchise has (been) and ever volition beryllium committed to winning, and I look guardant to moving each time to assistance present different WNBA rubric to the top hoops fans successful the world."

White already has thing successful communal with her prima player, Caitlin Clark. White wore No. 22 successful her days arsenic a subordinate with the Fever, Clark’s existent number. 

The Fever were the archetypal of 7 teams to capable a caput coaching vacancy successful the WNBA. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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