Coach of the Year winners usually fall into one, or multiple, of a few categories:
- Coaches that lead a team to a dominant, league-leading record
- New coaches that improve drastically upon a previous year’s win percentage
- Coaches that take a roster that’s generally perceived as sub-par to an impressive playoff seeding.
With those tendencies in mind, which WNBA head coaches are the frontrunners to be named the 2025 Coach of the Year?
Stephanie White (Indiana Fever)
The Indiana Fever made noise this offseason after firing Christie Sides and poaching Stephanie White, who coached the Fever from 2015 to 2016, from the Connecticut Sun. White will be gaining an abundance of talent compared to the scraps left in Mohegan Sun, and could possibly check off two boxes in her candidacy for Coach of the Year. She is, and should be, the favorite for the award.
It’s not everyday that a well-established coach finds a new team with well-established talent, and the two make for quite a concoction. Not only could White improve significantly upon the Fever’s .500…
