The Indiana Fever have actually worked with Stephanie White as their brand-new head trainer for the 2025 period, the group announced Friday.
White trained the Connecticut Sun for 2 periods, leading the group to a mixed 55-25 document and 2 straight playoff looks. She won WNBA Coach of the Year in 2023, her very first year in Connecticut.
White changes Christie Sides, that was discharged by the Fever onOct 27 after 2 periods. Sides led Indiana to its very first playoff look in 8 years this previous period, prior to obtaining brushed up by White’s Sun in the preliminary.
After weeks of conjecture regarding White’s future, the Sun revealed onOct 28 that the group and White had actually split methods what was apparently a common choice. Reports had actually been flowing that White had actually been speaking with various other groups regarding her future.
After those conversations, White will certainly currently go back to Indiana, where she trained for 6 periods, beginning as an aide in 2011. She was at some point advertised to the group’s head trainer in 2015, and invested 2 periods because placement prior to delegating trainer Vanderbilt ladies’s basketball.
White is likewise an Indiana indigenous, and was a standout ladies’s basketball gamer at Purdue; she invested the majority of her five-season WNBA profession with the Fever prior to coming to be a trainer.
White told ESPN previously today that the selection to leave Connecticut was produced both expert and individual factors. “It’s not an easy decision to leave Connecticut, but I think the best one for my family and my career,” White informed ESPN.
In enhancement to White signing up with the group, Indiana will certainly begin following period with a brand-new front workplace, with Kelly Krauskopf being hired as head of state in September and Amber Cox hired as primary running police officer and basic supervisor in October.
