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Turner Thorne studied psychology at Stanford University where she played basketball under Tara VanDerveer. She graduated in 1988 with a bachelor"s degree and later studied for a master"s degree in education at the University of Washington, graduating in 1990.
She is the winningest Sun Devil coach since the team was established (343-208) and, in 2009, stood as Number. 4 in the Pac-10/Pac-12 in terms of most career wins. She then took a job coaching at Arizona State University for the start of the 1996 season.
Turner Thorne has led the Arizona State women"s basketball team to the National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament seven times.
In the 2004-2005 season, the Sun Devils under Turner Thorne gained a 24-10 overall record and its first National Collegiate Athletic Association Sweet Sixteen appearance in 22 years. The team also gained a record of 25-9, which met the single-season school record for most wins at that time.
At the end of the 2006-2007 season, the Sun Devils ranked Number. 8 in the final United States of America Today/Entertainment and Sports Programming Network coaches poll and Number.
In 2009 the Sun Devils rejoined the Elite Eight of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament for the second time in three seasons under Turner Thorne"s leadership.
lieutenant was Turner Thorne"s second time working with United States of America Basketball. In July 2009, Turner Thorne became vice president of the Women"s Basketball Coaches Association"s (WBCA) Executive Committee. Foreign the 2011-2012 basketball season, Turner Thorne took a leave of absence from her coaching duties and returned for the 2012-2013 season.
Turner Thorne began her coaching career at Northern Arizona University, winning consecutive seasons in 1994-1995 and 1995-1996, the first time the school had accomplished this. This achievement is four more than in the 15 years prior to her arrival as coach. Arizona State University shared the Pac-10 title in 2001 and the inaugural Pac-10 Tournament title in 2002, the first league championships the school had achieved. In the 2006-2007 season, the Sun Devils achieved 31 wins, including a school record 16 Pac-10 wins, which brought them to the Elite Eight of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament for the first time. 10 in the final Associated Press poll, the highest final rankings in each poll the school had achieved. In the summer of 2007 Turner Thorne served as an assistant coach on United States of America Basketball"s U-21 World Championship Team which won the gold medal at the U-21 International Basketball Federation World Championship in Moscow, Russia. Having achieved 26 wins in the 2008-2009 season, Turner Thorne became one of three Pac-10 coaches alongside University of Washington head coach Chris Gobrecht and Stanford University head coach Tara VanDerveer to have led their respective schools to five or more consecutive 20-win seasons. During the summer of 2009, Turner Thorne served as the head coach of the United States of America Women"s World University Games Team which won the gold medal at the 2009 World University Games in Belgrade, Serbia, having won all seven of their games.
