C. Vivian Stringer to Speak Wednesday Evening on Cook Campus
Oct 29 | Women's Basketball
PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Rutgers head coach C. Vivian Stringer will be part of a public talk and book-signing on the Rutgers campus on Wednesday evening, Oct. 29. The event, entitled “to play your best, be your best: Perspectives on life, basketball, leadership and perseverance”, begins at 7:00 p.m. at the Cook Campus Center (multipurpose room).
Admission is free but seating is limited. The talk and a subsequent question and answer session is cosponsored by Douglass Residential College, the Institute for Women’s Leadership and the Institute for Research on Women.
This past season, Stringer became the third women’s coach, eighth coach overall and first African-American to record win No. 800. Entering her 14th season on the sidelines at Rutgers, Stringer was the first coach – men’s or women’s - to take three different schools to the Final Four (Cheyney University in 1982, The University of Iowa in 1993 and Rutgers in 2000). She led the Scarlet Knights to their second Final Four in 2007 and the program’s first national title game appearance.
Stringer was named one of the “101 Most Influential Minorities in Sports” by Sports Illustrated in 2003 and in 2007 was tabbed to the “100 Most Influential Sports Educators in America” list.
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