Sun, Fever, Mystics Latest WNBA Teams to Fire Coaches

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Three more WNBA teams dropped their head coaches in the last week, leaving more than half of the league’s 12 current squads without a sideline manager.

On Monday, the Connecticut Sun announced a reportedly mutual parting of ways with head coach Stephanie White, one day after the Indiana Fever announced the ousting of head coach Christie Sides. The news comes after the Washington Mystics dropped both head coach Eric Thibault and head coach-turned-GM Mike Thibault last Wednesday.

Former Connecticut head coach Stephanie White looks on during a WNBA game.
The Sun competed in two straight WNBA semifinals under former head coach Stephanie White. (David Berding/Getty Images)

White took Sun to two straight WNBA semifinals

In just two seasons at Connecticut’s helm, White led the Sun to two straight WNBA semifinals before ultimately falling to New York in 2023 and Minnesota in 2024.

The 2023 WNBA Coach of the Year departs Connecticut with an impressive 55-25 regular-season record, and is rumored to be the top candidate for Indiana’s now-vacant head coach job.

If White does sign on to lead the Fever, it will be a homecoming. The Purdue alum played for the WNBA team from 2000 to 2004, and later spent six years on Indiana’s sideline, first as an assistant coach before taking…

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