C. Vivian Stringer announces retirement after 50 seasons
Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer is retiring from teaching. Rutgers, and Stringer, introduced the information Saturday, saying Stringer will formally retire in September.
Stringer, 74, spent 50 years as a collegiate head coach. She received 1,055 video games over her profession. Rutgers will start looking for Stringer’s alternative instantly.
Stringer coached at Cheyney State and the College of Iowa earlier than becoming a member of Rutgers. In a press release, she mentioned it’s time to “step apart and problem others to step up and take this sport ahead.”
“After just lately celebrating the primary girls’s Last 4 group at Cheyney State College, the place it began, it sat with me that I’ve been at this for a very long time. It is very important step apart and problem others to step up and take this sport ahead. I’m endlessly indebted to all of the coaches who I labored beside. Some had been former gamers, some had been colleagues, however all had been family and friends on the finish of the day and had been my most trusted relationships. To the younger women that I used to be lucky to have coached and mentored into the ladies and leaders of at this time, maintain pushing the obstacles, maintain pushing on your spot on the desk, and at all times know who you might be.”
Stringer referred to as retiring the “hardest determination” of her life.
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