Fresno State women's basketball coach steps down: 'It has truly been a privilege'

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The caput women's hoops manager astatine Fresno State, Jaime White, stepped down from her presumption connected Monday.

According to Fresno State Athletics, White concludes her tenure successful Fresno with an wide grounds of 196-156. She besides had a 112-88 grounds successful Mountain West play, which included a regular-season title rubric successful 2020.

It has genuinely been a privilege and grant to beryllium a portion of the Fresno State household for much than a decade. I americium truthful grateful to the outstanding young women who person worn our uniform, to the unthinkable adjunct coaches and enactment staff, and to the Fresno State fans and assemblage who proceed to enactment our diversion teams. The aboriginal is agleam for Fresno State Athletics and for the women's hoops programme and I volition beryllium cheering connected the Bulldogs successful the years ahead.

Over the people of White's career, Fresno State says she has coached 3 Mountain West Players of the Year and 1 two-time league Defensive Player of the Year. With 196 vocation wins arsenic a Bulldog, White has the second-most wins by a caput manager and was the second-longest tenured caput manager successful programme history.  

"Jaime led our programme with quality and compassion and truthful galore of her student-athletes person earned their degrees and gone connected to interaction their communities. We privation Jaime each of the best," said Director of Athletics Garrett Klassy.

A nationalist hunt for the adjacent women's hoops caput manager astatine Fresno State has already begun.