The Fever announced that the team fired head coach Marianne Stanley on Wednesday, and assistant coach Carlos Knox will act as the interim head coach for the rest of the season. Stanley was reportedly in the final year of her contract.
Stanley is a legendary college basketball head coach, having led Old Dominion to an NCAA Title in 1985. She also coached Penn, USC, Stanford and Cal through 2000, and will be inducted to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame this year.
After coaching in college, Stanley made a jump to the WNBA as an assistant but got her first professional head coaching position with the Mystics in 2002.