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Vivian Stringer: Female Coaches

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Despite the dramatic benefits of Title IX, Coach Stringer worries about what was lost in the lesser number of women coaches. Stringer began her teaching and coaching career in the early 70s at Cheyney, a small, historically-black college outside of Philadelphia. Even before the seeds of Title IX had truly started to take root nationally, Stringer propelled her team at Cheyney to the final four in the NCAA's first-ever National Championship for women's basketball in 1982. She later did the same for her teams at the University of Iowa in 1993, and at Rutgers in 2000 and 2007, earning her the distinction of being the first coach in NCAA history to lead three different schools to the national semifinals. When Don Imus made his notorious, derogatory remarks about her Rutgers team in 2007, Coach Stringer's eloquent public response modeled dignity and poise for her players and the nation. The third winningest coach in women's basketball history, Stringer has received a multitude of honors over the course of her career, including being named the National Coach of the Year three times (Wade Trophy, 1982; Converse, 1988; and Naismith, 1993) by her peers, the 1993 Coach of the Year by Sports Illustrated, USA Today, Converse, the Los Angeles Times and the Black Coaches Association, and her induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009.