Vivian Stringer
Stringer in 2007
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| Sport(s) | Women's college basketball | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Title | Head coach | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | Rutgers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Conference | Big Ten | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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March 16, 1948 Edenborn, Pennsylvania |
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| 1972–1983 | Cheyney State | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1983–1995 | Iowa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1995–present | Rutgers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2009 |
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| Women's Basketball Hall of Fame | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Charlaine Vivian Stringer (born March 16, 1948) 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 sixth winningest coach in women's basketball history. She was honored as the Naismith College Coach of the Year for women's basketball in 1993, and is a member of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. She was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in April 2009, and was inducted in September of that year. On February 26, 2013, Stringer won her 900th game, becoming only the fourth coach in women's basketball history to reach this mark, joining Summitt, Hatchell, and Jody Conradt.
Stringer is a native of Edenborn, Pennsylvania, and a member of the Alumni Hall of Fame at her alma mater. One of her first great accomplishments was in high school when she sued her school for not allowing her to be a cheerleader because of her race. She won the case and was given a spot on her school's cheerleading squad, being the first black cheerleader in her town since 1955–1958, when Dolores Dantzler was on the team. She is a graduate of Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. Stringer and her late husband, William D. Stringer, have three children: David, Janine (Nina) and Justin.
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