Theresa Grentz
| Sport(s) | Women's college basketball | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Title | Head coach | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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March 24, 1952 Glenolden, Pennsylvania |
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| 1971–1974 | Immaculata | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1974 | Saint Joseph's | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1976–1995 | Rutgers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1995–2007 | Illinois | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015–present | Lafayette | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Overall | 671–309 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Women's Basketball Hall of Fame 2001 2013 Joe Lapchick Character Award |
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Theresa Shank Grentz (born March 24, 1952), is the head coach of the women's basketball program at Lafayette College. She has also served as their head coach of the women's basketball program at the University of Illinois, Rutgers University and St. Josephs. She is a member of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. Her career record is 671–309 and she served as a head coach for 32 years, with the last 13 as the Illinois head coach. She was the Olympic head coach in 1992; the team captured the Bronze medal in Barcelona.
Born Theresa Shank, Grentz was raised in a working-class district of Philadelphia and attended Cardinal O'Hara High School where she played basketball for her school in the Philadelphia Catholic League. She intended to go to college out of state, but while a high school senior, her family's house burned down, losing everything, so she decided to attend Immaculata College, then a women's college. She graduated with a B.S. in Biology in 1974.
She is married to Karl Grentz and they have two sons.
While a student at Immaculata, she played for the Mighty Macs and, under coach Cathy Rush, led the team to three straight AIAW National Championships between 1972 and 1974. The 1974 title game was the first ever live coverage of a US women's basketball game. She scored over 1,000 points, and earned First Team All-America status three times. Immaculata retired her jersey, number 12. She was named the AMF Collegiate Player of the Year.
During her four years at the Pennsylvanian college, the Mighty Macs won three AIAW National Championships, from 1972-74. Grentz scored more than 1,000 career points for the Mighty Macs and was named a first team All-American for three consecutive years. She was named the 1974 AMF Collegiate Player of the Year and had her No. 12 jersey retired by Immaculata. The Mighty Macs, as a team were inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame in 2014.
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