After 25 years of coaching, Arizona State women's basketball coach Charli Turner Thorne is retiring. (0:30)
Arizona State has hired a new women's basketball coach.
The school said the former Delaware coach will replace Turner Thorne, who retired earlier this month after 25 years at the helm.
For nearly three decades, I have had the honor and privilege to coach and develop women student-athletes, and I am grateful for the opportunity to continue to do so here at Arizona State and in the Pac-12.
A former player at South Florida, she spent the past five seasons at Delaware, where she went 95-58 with two 20-win seasons. She led the Blue Hens to the WNIT semifinals and the program's first NCAA tournament in nearly a decade.
After taking over a program that had won four games the year before she arrived, she led Georgetown to consecutive WNIT appearances. She spent 14 seasons as an assistant at Wake Forest and Georgetown, but only two at the College of Charleston.
We wanted a coach who could build off a long-tenured culture of success with respect for the past while also establishing their own in order to succeed after Charli's retirement.
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