C. Vivian Stringer Biography

Vivian Stringer is an American basketball coach with one of the best records in the history of women's basketball. She is currently the head coach of the Rutgers University women's basketball team.
Stringer holds the distinction of being the first coach in NCAA history to lead three different women's programs to the NCAA Final Four: Rutgers in 2000 and 2007 the University of Iowa in 1993 and Cheyney State College (now Cheyney University of Pennsylvania) in 1982. She is the third winningest coach in women's basketball history behind only Tennessee's Pat Summitt and North Carolina's Sylvia Hatchell. She is tied at 900 wins with former University of Texas coach Jody Conradt.
Stringer has been named the National Coach of the Year three times (Wade Trophy 1982; Converse 1988; and Naismith 1993) by her peers. She also was named the 1988 Russell Athletic/WBCA National Coach of the Year the 1993 Coach of the Year by Sports Illustrated USA Today Converse the Los Angeles Times and the Black Coaches Association; the 2000 Female Coach of the Year by the Rainbow/PUSH Organization a group founded by Rev. Jesse Jackson; the District V Coach of the Year in 1985 1988 and 1993; the District I Coach of the Year in 1998; the Big Ten Coach of the Year in 1991 and 1993; the BIG EAST Coach of the Year in 1998 and 2005; and the 1998 1999 2000 and 2005 Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association Coach of the Year.

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