The West Virginia Mountaineers have formalized an offer to hire South Dakota head coach Dawn Plitzuweit as their next women’s basketball head coach. Plitzuweit brings 15 years of head coaching experience to West Virginia and in her 15 years she has been an extremely successful coach, winning over 73% of her games with a record of 346-128. Per EerSports.com
Plitzuweit replaces Mike Carey, who retired earlier this month after 21 seasons in charge. She spent nine other seasons as a head coach in Division II at Grand Valley State and in Division I at Northern Kentucky.