The longest tenured head coach at Rutgers, C. Vivian Stringer, is set to retire in September after leading the program since 1995. Replacing a Hall of Famer will be no easy task. In fact, there have only been two full-time head coaches in Rutgers women’s basketball history and both are legends. Stringer replaced Theresa Grentz, who was just voted into the Naismith Hall of Fame as a player and first brought the program into national prominence. Both had tremendous success leading the Scarlet Knights for a combined four plus decades.
There were many lean years over that time span across the athletic department but one team that Rutgers fans could rely on to take pride in was women’s basketball.