Vanderbilt hires Stephanie White of WNBA’s Fever as coach

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) The Vanderbilt Commodores want Stephanie White of the WNBA’s Indiana Fever as their new women’s basketball coach so much that they’re willing to wait.

And White will lean on her old Purdue coach, Carolyn Peck, to run the Commodores while she finishes out the WNBA season.

Vanderbilt announced Tuesday that White will be the program’s fifth head coach, and Peck will be the interim head coach while White works the rest of the WNBA season. When Indiana’s season ends, Peck then will be associate coach.

White called the combination a ”win-win.”

”Carolyn is someone who can really hit the ground running. I wanted to have someone in there with whom I could have frank, honest communication, that could carry out the vision of what we want to accomplish as a program on the court, in the classroom, in the community and from a recruiting standpoint,” White said.

”Carolyn knows me, how I operate and my expectation level, and we have a great relationship, so it’s a natural fit.”

White, the first rookie coach to lead her team to the WNBA Finals last year, will finish out this season with the Fever, whose season just began this month and could run into October. That’s fine with Vanderbilt, where athletic director David Williams noted White has been a winner at every phase of her career

”She wants to coach at Vanderbilt, and we believe …

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