Longtime WNBA and college coach Lin Dunn is getting back into the game. After retiring following the 2014 WNBA season, Dunn is returning to the coaching ranks as an assistant to Matthew Mitchell for the Kentucky women's basketball team.
Dunn, who turned 69 earlier this month, had a 447-257 record as a college head coach with stops at Austin Peay, Mississippi, Miami and Purdue. Dunn then coached in Portland in the short-lived ABL. She subsequently moved to the WNBA, where she was a head coach at Seattle, and an assistant and then head coach in Indiana.
Dunn twice led the Fever to the WNBA Finals, winning the championship in 2012. She retired in 2014 and was replaced by her assistant, Stephanie White.
White was announced as Vanderbilt's new head coach on Tuesday, but she will finish out this WNBA season with the Fever. So this fall, Dunn and White will both be coaching in the SEC. Dunn coached White when the latter started her playing career at Purdue in 1995.
Kentucky has had a difficult time in the past several months, with multiple players transferring, recruits decommitting and three assistant coaches departing. Mitchell met with the media in late April to discuss the status of the program. He has restocked his staff with assistants Dunn, Kyra Elzy and Niya Butts. Elzy and Butts both previously worked at Kentucky.