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MICKIE DEMOSS<br />
ASSISTANT COACH<br />
A participant in six national<br />
championships and 12 NCAA<br />
Final Four appearances, longtime<br />
college assistant and head coach<br />
Mickie DeMoss begins her first<br />
season as a Fever assistant<br />
coach to Lin Dunn.<br />
A 35-year veteran at the very<br />
height of NCAA women’s<br />
basketball and the 2006 SEC<br />
Coach of the Year, DeMoss<br />
served 20 seasons as an<br />
assistant and associate head coach under Pat Summitt at<br />
Tennessee. She spent three seasons as an assistant to Gail<br />
Goestenkors at Texas and served four years with record-breaking<br />
results as the head coach at Kentucky.<br />
“Mickie is one of the most highly respected basketball people in<br />
our business,” said Chief Operating Officer and General Manager<br />
Kelly Krauskopf. “She has been at the highest level in the<br />
collegiate game and has taught and prepared many of her players<br />
to move on and be<strong>com</strong>e great <strong>WNBA</strong> players. She is a winner and<br />
a tireless worker. I am very happy that she has chosen to join our<br />
franchise.”<br />
DeMoss spent the past two seasons with the Lady Volunteers<br />
where she had previously spent 18 years as part of a coaching trio<br />
featuring Summitt and Holly Warlick. During a span from 1985-86<br />
to 2002-03, the trio led the Lady Vols to six national titles and 12<br />
trips to the Final Four. DeMoss took the coaching reins at<br />
Kentucky for the 2003-04 season and later spent time at Texas<br />
before returning to Rocky Top in 2010-11.<br />
"I have known Coach DeMoss for 30 years,” added Fever<br />
coach Lin Dunn who has long-standing ties with the UT program.<br />
"She brings to our staff an elite knowledge both offensively and<br />
defensively. She has had tremendous experiences on<br />
championship teams at Tennessee. I have always been highly<br />
impressed with her work ethic, her ability to develop players, her<br />
attention to detail and her excellent <strong>com</strong>munication skills. We are<br />
thrilled to have her with the Fever!"<br />
During her first 18 seasons at UT, the Lady Vols amassed a<br />
554-77 (.878) overall record. DeMoss was promoted to associate<br />
head coach in 2000, but stepped aside three years later to lead<br />
her own program.<br />
In four seasons at Kentucky, she guided the Wildcats to a 71-<br />
56 record including consecutive 20-win seasons and three<br />
postseason appearances (one NCAA and two WNIT).<br />
The 2006 SEC Coach of the Year honor was a first for a UK<br />
coach, as she guided the 22-9 Wildcats to the NCAA Tournament<br />
for the first time in seven seasons and punctuated the trip with an<br />
NCAA win. The breakout year also included a victory over No. 1ranked<br />
Tennessee, 66-63, in front of a school-record crowd of<br />
13,689 at Rupp Arena. It marked the first win over a top-ranked<br />
team in UK history. In 2006-07, Kentucky was 20-14 and<br />
advanced to the WNIT. That season, DeMoss' Cats attracted a<br />
school record attendance of 5,863 fans per game.<br />
She elected to step aside as head coach at Kentucky in April<br />
2007, but her coaching hiatus ended when she accepted an<br />
assistant coaching position at the University of Texas in the<br />
summer of 2007. She was the Longhorns' top recruiter while also<br />
coaching the post game.<br />
Over the past three decades, DeMoss has cemented a<br />
reputation as one of the country’s most elite coaches. A survey of<br />
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the nation's NCAA Division I women's head basketball coaches<br />
tabbed her as the top assistant in the country in 2000. She also<br />
garnered that distinction from a 1998 The Women's Basketball<br />
Journal poll. While at UT, DeMoss was considered a great<br />
technical mind, floor coach and entertainer. Off the court, she was<br />
regarded as one of the best recruiters in the college game, year<br />
after year recruiting future All-SEC and All-America awardwinners,<br />
while stockpiling rosters with the kind of players essential<br />
to winning national championships.<br />
Some of DeMoss' most notable recruits at Tennessee include:<br />
Tonya Edwards, the 1987 Final Four MVP, Dena Head, the 1992<br />
SEC Player of the Year, Chamique Holdsclaw, the 1996 and 1997<br />
Final Four MVP, and Tamika Catchings, a four-time All-American<br />
and current star of the Fever.<br />
Noted for her success coaching post players, DeMoss<br />
protégés have represented Team USA in every Olympic Games<br />
since 1992.<br />
Prior to joining the Tennessee staff in 1985, DeMoss had been<br />
an assistant coach at Auburn University (1983-85), a head coach<br />
at the University of Florida (1979-83) and an assistant at Memphis<br />
State (1977-79). DeMoss received her undergraduate degree in<br />
physical education from Louisiana Tech University in 1977, where<br />
she starred at point guard. She then received her master's degree<br />
in education at Memphis State University in 1979. She is a native<br />
of Tallulah, La.<br />
STEPHANIE WHITE<br />
ASSISTANT COACH<br />
Stephanie White is in her<br />
second season as an assistant<br />
coach for the Indiana Fever.<br />
White, one of the original Fever<br />
players in 2000 and a member of<br />
the Fever’s All-Decade Team<br />
announced in 2009, has coached<br />
in the college and pro ranks since<br />
2003. She retired from the <strong>WNBA</strong><br />
following the 2004 season.<br />
White’s hiring marked the first<br />
time the Fever has hired an<br />
assistant coach with pro playing experience. White was re-united<br />
with Fever Head Coach Lin Dunn, the former Purdue coach who<br />
recruited White to the West Lafayette campus.<br />
Most recently, White spent four seasons as an assistant coach<br />
with the Chicago Sky after previous stints as a college assistant at<br />
Ball State, Kansas State and Toledo. White also has parlayed her<br />
playing and coaching into a broadcasting career with the Big Ten<br />
Network and ESPN. She appears regularly on BTN’s women’s<br />
basketball studio show and provides game analysis for both<br />
networks.<br />
“I am very pleased to have Stephanie back with our franchise,”<br />
said Chief Operating Officer and General Manager Kelly<br />
Krauskopf, who executed a 1999 trade for White prior to the<br />
team’s inaugural season. “I think she is one of the brightest young<br />
coaches in women's basketball. I knew that her high basketball IQ<br />
would transfer into coaching from her playing career. She will be a<br />
terrific addition to our staff.”<br />
“Stephanie is someone who is more than just a coach,” said<br />
Dunn. “What makes her so very valuable is that she’s not only had<br />
college and pro coaching experience, but she’s a former player.<br />
She has been a winner all her life.”<br />
The 2006 SEC Coach of the Year while at Kentucky, DeMoss spent 20 years on the sideline beside Pat Summitt.
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