It’s time to turn back the clock in Indiana.
After rehiring Kelly Krauskopf — who was the general manager of the Indiana Fever from 2000 to 2017 — in September to be the president of basketball operations, the Fever are getting the whole band back together with Stephanie White as the new (old) head coach. The team announced the move Friday.
“Stephanie is a part of the fabric of this franchise, both as a former player and as a member of our championship coaching staff, so I’m quite familiar with her elite basketball IQ and leadership style,” Krauskopf said in a statement. “I am confident there is no one who better understands our culture or is more equipped to lead our group of players to the next level.”
White was an assistant coach in Indiana from 2011 to 2014 and took over the head job in 2015-16 before moving to the NCAA to coach at Vanderbilt. She returned to the WNBA in 2023 with the Connecticut Sun and won Coach of the Year. However, she had reportedly been seeking new opportunities this offseason before parting ways with Connecticut this week, as the Sun face a free-agency overhaul and are perpetually hamstrung by the financial limitations of being owned by the Mohegan Tribe.
Now, she’s landed arguably the most exciting job in the league in Indiana.
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