Stephanie Glance is an American

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coach.

Career

She was hired as the head women's basketball coach at

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in April 2013. She had spent the previous three years s the head coach at Illinois State University. She was a special assistant at the University of Tennessee under

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, the all-time winningest NCAA Basketball coach and was the former interim head coach of the

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team at

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, succeeding Kay Yow in 2009. The 2008–09 season is her 15th with the team, as she was previously an associate head coach and recruiting coordinator. In her first year at Illinois State, the team had a record of 24 wins and 11 losses. The WBCA recognized this performance by selecting her for the

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, which is awarded to the coach with the best performance in their rookie year as a head coach. After coaching for three years at Illinois State, she was hired as head women's basketball coach at Columbia University. She coached there for two seasons before stepping down to be the new Executive Director of the Kay Yow Cancer Fund. Glance is from

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and a former student of

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Head coaching record

Source: Columbia

References

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