Vivian Stringer

Charlaine Vivian Stringer is a prominent American basketball figure, and holds the best records in the history of American women basket ball. She was born on March 16, 1948. She was officially announced to be the Hall of Fame on On April 6, 2009. A large media gathered at Naismith memorial Basketball Hall of fame’s five new inductions including stinger.

Basketball coaching is always a dream for stringer and she started it with a dream. She is a daughter of coal minor in Edenborn Pa. stringer and stepped into coaching in 1972 at Cheyney University.

It was very difficult for her to leave Iowa for Rutgers in 1995. She did it with lot of strength but after three years she lost her husband due to heart attack at the age of 47.

“I need to leave Iowa after my Husband’s death because I had to move forward” she said.

In total number of 14 seasons, she secured 305 out of her 825 wins at Rutgers, with the company of John Thompson and Geno Auriemma as one of the great coaches in Big east History.

She become the first coach to be a part of three different programs to the NCAA final Four (Cheyney in 1982, Iowa in 1993, and Rutgers in 2000 and 2007).

Stringer weighted her induction more then her individual achievements to remind her responsibility to women basketball.