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White attended Purdue University, where she was named National Player of the Year, Indiana National Collegiate Athletic Association Woman of the Year, and Big Ten Conference Player of the Year on the way to leading Purdue to the National Collegiate Athletic Association National Championship in 1999.
She participated in the WBCA High School All-America Game in 1995, scoring seventeen points, and earning Most Valuable Player honors. She led Purdue University to the 1999 National Collegiate Athletic Association Women"s National Championship in basketball. She played five years in the Women's National Basketball Association, one with the Charlotte Sting and four with the Indiana Fever.
She retired in 2004.
Stephanie White joined the Chicago Sky as an assistant coach in 2007, spending four seasons there until she joined her college coach, Lin Dunn, as the first former Women's National Basketball Association player to serve as an assistant coach on the Fever staff She was named head coach on September 23, 2014, making her the youngest active coach in the league. Several of the games were close, with the United States of America team winning four games by six points or fewer, including an overtime game in the semifinal match against Japan.
The gold medal game against South of Korea was also close, but the United States of America fell 76–71 to claim the silver medal for the event.
White was the second leading scorer for the team, averaging 10.3 points per game. She was acquired a year later in an expansion draft by the Indiana Fever to lead the team’s inaugural season roster.
After four years with the Fever, she ranked third in games played (112) and three point field goals (92), and fourth in scoring (684). She averaged 5.9 points and 2.0 assists per game.
She retired from the Women's National Basketball Association in 2004, and went on to become the assistant coach at Ball State (2003-2004), Kansas State (2004-2005), and the University of Toledo (2005-2006 and 2006-2007), before going to the Chicago Sky.
White was involved in all aspects of the basketball program, including recruiting, on-floor coaching, scouting, individual workouts and academic support. Since 2007, White has also served as a college basketball analyst for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network and the Big Ten Network, including studio work and co-hosting the network"s coverage of the Big Ten Women"s Basketball Tournament. After a four-year stint as an assistant, White took over the head coaching duties for the Indiana Fever following Lin Dunn"s retirement.
In her first season, she led the Fever to their second Women's National Basketball Association Finals appearance, losing the best-of-five series to Minnesota.
