Women's Basketball Release - Flamini Hired - Guilford College

The Flamini File

Greensboro, NC (07/23/03) -- Guilford College Athletic Director Marion Kirby announced the appointment of Stephanie Flamini as Guilford's head women's basketball coach Wednesday afternoon at a press conference in Guilford's Hege Library. Flamini will also serve as Guilford's senior woman administrator (SWA) in the athletics department. She has not suffered a losing record in her four years of head basketball coaching experience.

The Quakers' seventh head women's basketball coach, Flamini recently concluded a successful three-year stint at Chowan where she had a 42-32 record, the most women's basketball coaching victories since Chowan became a four-year school in 1993. Chowan enjoyed three consecutive winning seasons for the first time under Flamini, including a 15-9 mark in 2002-03. Last year's club 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 players 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.

Including a 16-9 record as Maine-Farmington's head coach in 1998-99, Flamini owns a 58-41 head-coaching record. In addition to her basketball duties, she served as the school's assistant athletic director, SWA and assistant softball coach. The Beavers won the Maine Athletic Conference regular-season title in 1998, one of three league titlists she has coached. Flamini served as an assistant at Division II Shippensburg 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 team from 1996-98 and helped the Rams to the 1997 PSAC Eastern Conference crown and an NCAA bid.

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 helped Immaculata's team in 1995-96 before returning to West Chester for her master's degree in athletic administration in 1998. A native of King of Prussia, PA, and graduate of Upper Merion High School, she earned a basketball scholarship to Division II Clarion where she helped the Eagles to a 57-30 record, a PSAC title and two NCAA Tournament appearances in three years. Clarion advanced to the national quarterfinals in 1991 and to the round of 16 in 1992.

Flamini actively participates in the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) with service on the group's Carol Eckman Award and Assistant Coaches committees. She has served as the assistant summer basketball camp director at West Chester since 1992 and twice filled the Rams' Director of Athletic Development position on an interim basis.

The hiring conclude a hectic summer at Guilford in which Kirby led national searches to fill four head-coaching positions in two months. With Guilford seeking softball and men's lacrosse head coaches, Barb Bausch resigned the women's basketball position in May after leading the Quakers to a 187-80 record, two NCAA Tournament appearances and two Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) titles in 10 seasons. She accepted an assistant coaching position at Division I Cal State-Fullerton, her alma mater.

Guilford's women are slated to return 13 letter winners from the 2002-03 squad that went 20-7.

Name: Stephanie Susan Flamini

Born: May 12, 1970, in Philadelphia, PA

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

Upper Merion High School - Basketball, Softball, 1984-88

Clarion University - Basketball, 1989-92

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, ME

1999-00 - assistant coach, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA

2000-03 - head coach, Chowan College, Murfreesboro, NC

Maine-Farmington - 16-9, one year (.640)

Chowan - 42-32, three years (.568)

Overall - 58-41, four years (.586)