Stephanie White and the Connecticut Sun have separated after she guided the team to the WNBA semifinals in both of her seasons as coach, the team announced on Monday.
The Sun finished the regular season in third place with a 28-12 record, defeated Indiana in the first round of the playoffs, and then lost a five-game semifinal series to Minnesota.
“We want to thank Stephanie for her time in Connecticut and her commitment to our organization over the past two seasons,” said Sun president Jen Rizzotti. “We wish her the best in her future endeavors.”
The Sun are the seventh team in the WNBA to change coaches, and this announcement came just a day after the Indiana Fever fired Christie Sides.
Two weeks ago, White mentioned in a Zoom call with reporters that she was dealing with a family emergency and was not focused on her coaching future.
In her first season, White led the Sun to a franchise-best 27-13 record and was named the 2023 WNBA Coach of the Year as well as the Associated Press Coach of the Year.
Before coaching the Sun, White was an assistant and head coach with the Indiana Fever. She was part of the Fever’s staff during their 2012 WNBA championship win and took the team to the finals as head coach in 2015. She was also the head coach at Vanderbilt from 2016 to 2021.
White played five seasons in the WNBA after her college career at Purdue, spending the last four of those seasons with the Fever.
Additionally, White has worked in television as a college basketball analyst for ESPN and the Big Ten Network.
