Karen Stack Umlauf is a former executive and assistant coach of the
National Basketball Association's
Chicago Bulls.
Stack Umlauf was a standout basketball player for the
Northwestern Wildcats in the early 1980s.
After a year of playing basketball overseas, she joined the Bulls in 1985, starting with a role of selling tickets.
Over the next decades, she rose to become director of basketball operations for 20 years and later senior director of basketball administration.
In 2017, she lobbied Bulls head of basketball operations
John Paxson to let her coach. She was first assigned to the summer league.
In so doing, she became the Bulls' first female assistant coach, combining that role with the role of director of team operations.
On October 12, 2020, the organization announced Stack Umlauf would not return to the coaching staff under newly-hired head coach
Billy Donovan
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Personal life
Stack Umlauf is the sister of
Jim Stack, a former scout and assistant general manager for the Bulls and later general manager of the
Minnesota Timberwolves.
She is also the aunt of NBA player
Frank Kaminsky.
References
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1961 births
Living people
American women's basketball players
Chicago Bulls assistant coaches
Northwestern Wildcats women's basketball players