Women's Basketball Coaching Staff
Head Coach Stephanie Flamini - Podcast
Stephanie Flamini starts her seventh season as Guilford’s head women’s basketball coach and senior woman’s administrator (SWA). She joined the Quakers’ staff in July 2003 and directed a senior-laden team to a 17-9 record and the 2004 Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Tournament semifinals. Five Guilford student-athletes have combined for five All-ODAC honors under Flamini’s direction, including three first-team selections, including Tracey Croner '09, also a two-time second-team pick. Guilford's Kristine Ellis captured the league's Rookie of the Year Award in 2005-06 and A.J. Robertson '04 was named the league's 2004 Women's Basketball Scholar Athlete of the Year.
The Quakers’ eighth head women’s basketball coach, Flamini owns a 140-125 career record in ten seasons. Before joining Guilford’s staff, she guided Chowan University to a 42-32 mark in three years, the most women’s basketball coaching victories since Chowan became a four-year school in 1993. The team enjoyed three straight winning seasons for the first time under Flamini, including a 15-9 mark in 2002-03. The unit ranked as high as third among NCAA Division III South Region teams and earned the school’s first regional women’s hoops ratings. She coached a pair of All-Dixie Conference students in her tenure, including C.C. Vaughan, a first-team all-league and D3hoops.com honorable mention All-South selection in 2003. Flamini also worked as Chowan’s SWA and taught in the school’s health and physical education department.
Flamini coached the University of Maine at Farmington to a 16-9 record and the Maine Athletic Conference regular-season title in 1998-99, her lone season at the school. In addition to herbasketball duties, she served as the school’s assistant athletic director, SWA and assistant softball coach. Flamini worked as a women’s basketball assistant at Division II Shippensburg University in 1999-00 when the Raiders won the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) championship and reached the NCAA Division II Tournament. She assisted Deirdre Kane’s West Chester University team from 1996-98 and helped the Rams to the 1997 PSAC Eastern Conference crown and an NCAA bid. Flamini also coached a PSAC All-Star team in a summer tour of the Netherlands in 2000.
A native of King of Prussia, Pa., and graduate of Upper Merion High School, Flamini earned a basketball scholarship to Division II Clarion University. Clarion reached the national quarterfinals in 1991 and the round of 16 in 1992. Flamini concluded her college career at West Chester and in 1994 earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and an associate’s degree in elementary education. She assisted Immaculata College’s basketball team in 1995-96 before returning to West Chester for her master’s degree in athletic administration in 1998.
Flamini also teaches a first-year experience class at Guilford and actively participates in the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA). She has served on the group’s Carol Eckman Award Committee for the past nine years, once as chair, and also on the Assistant Coaches Committee. Flamini worked as West Chester’s assistant summer basketball camp director from 1992-2004 and twice filled the Rams’ Director of Athletic Development position on an interim basis.
The Stephanie Flamini File
Personal
Name: Stephanie Flamini
Education
Upper Merion High School, 1988
West Chester University, B.A. in philosophy, 1994
West Chester University, A.D. in elementary education, 1994
West Chester University, M.S.A. in athletic administration, 1998
Playing Experience
Upper Merion High School - Basketball, Softball
Clarion University - Basketball
Women's Basketball Coaching Experience
1995-96 - assistant coach/recruiting coordinator, Immaculata College, Immaculata, Pa.
1996-98 - graduate assistant coach, West Chester University, West Chester, Pa.
1998-99 - head coach, Maine-Farmington, Farmington, Maine
1999-00 - assistant coach, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pa.
2000-03 - head coach, Chowan College, Murfreesboro, N.C.
2003-present - head coach, Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C.
Collegiate Head Coaching Records
Maine-Farmington - 17-8, one year (.680)
Chowan - 42-32, three years (.568)
Guilford - 81-85, six years (.455)