Player Bio: Stefanie Pemper - NAVY OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE

Stefanie Pemper

	Position: Head Coach
	Experience: Second Season
	Alma Mater: Idaho State '92

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Stefanie Pemper will begin her first season as the head coach of the Navy women's basketball team this fall. Hired during the spring of 2008, she becomes the sixth coach of the program in Navy history.

Pemper arrives on The Yard after compiling a sparkling 235-48 record (.830) over her decade as the head coach of Bowdoin, a career winning percentage that ranks fourth in NCAA Division III history. The Polar Bears also compiled a New England Small College Athletic Conference regular season record of 65-7 (.903) during her tenure and claimed at least a share of six conference regular season titles to go along with seven conference tournament championships.

Pemper's teams were especially dominant at home, winning 76 consecutive games from 2001-07, the fourth-longest home winning streak in NCAA Division III history.

Bowdoin's success was not limited to the conference level under Pemper, who also served as the school's Senior Woman Administrator, as the program qualified for the NCAA Tournament in all but one of her years at the school. The Polar Bears made seven consecutive Sweet 16 appearances from 2001-07 and advanced to the Elite Eight in six straight years (2002-07).

School history was made by the team during its magical 2003-04 season. Bowdoin compiled a 30-1 record on the year, with its lone loss coming in the NCAA National Championship Game. It was the first title game appearance for any team in Bowdoin history.

At the conclusion of the 2003-04 season, Pemper was selected as the WBCA NCAA Division III National Coach of the Year. She previously was tabbed as the District I Coach of the Year in both 2003 and `04, and was named as the NESCAC Coach of the Year in 2002, `04, and `06.

In addition to her accolades, Pemper's players also regularly were honored on the national level, which included Lora Trenkle (2004) and Eileen Flaherty (2007) garnering First-Team All-America accolades and Flaherty being selected as the WBCA National Player of the Year.

Several of Pemper's players have also started careers in the coaching profession. Of the 18 players who played four years under her at Bowdoin, seven are currently coaching in the college or high school ranks: Amanda Leahy '08 (St. Lawrence), Julia Loonin '07 (Wellesley), Alison Smith '05 (Bowdoin), Courtney Ruggles '04 (Navy), Corinne Pellegrini '03 (Buffalo), Kristi Royer '03 (Falmouth High School), and Jessie Mayol '02 (Windham High School).

A native of Huntington Beach, Calif., Pemper is a 1992 graduate of Idaho State. She would earn All-Big Sky Conference laurels during her final two seasons at the school and would be inducted into the Idaho State Hall of Fame in 2003.

Pemper earned a pair of degrees at the school, first a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication (1992) then a Master's of Physical Education/Athletic Administration (1997).

Following graduation and the conclusion of her playing career, Pemper quickly ascended through the collegiate coaching ranks. After one season as a graduate assistant at Alaska-Anchorage, she returned to her alma mater to begin a two-year stint as a member of the school's coaching staff. From there, Pemper traveled to the East Coast to join the staff at Harvard.

The Crimson won at least 20 games during each of her three seasons in Cambridge and posted a 39-3 Ivy League record over that time. Harvard won the conference title and advanced to the NCAA Tournament in each of her three years. After losing in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in both 1996 and `97, Harvard became the first -- and only -- No. 16 seed in either the women's or men's national tournament to win a first round game when the Crimson topped the No. 1 seed Stanford Cardinal.

Following that season, Pemper accepted her most recent position at Bowdoin.