The 2016-17 campaign marks Stephany Dunmyer’s 14th season at the helm of the Virginia Wesleyan women’s basketball program, having compiled an overall career mark of 209-142 with a 151-93 record in ODAC play. The most successful coach in program history, Dunmyer has nearly 100 more wins than the runner-up on the coaching victory leaderboard.
Dunmyer led the Marlins to their first NCAA Division III Tournament berth in the 2014-15 after winning three games at the Salem Civic Center to claim the school’s first ODAC title. The Marlins traveled to No. 17 NYU in the first round, nearly knocking off the host school before falling by just one point, 51-50.
She has led the Marlins to the ODAC title game in four of the past eight seasons, highlighted by a 21-7 record in 2006-07, the first 20-win finish for VWC since the 1988-89 campaign. She also posted 22-6 marks in 2007-08 and 2011-12. She also set the school record for ODAC wins in 2006-07 and 2011-12, going 17-3 against league competition.
Dunmyer has earned three ODAC Coach of the Year awards, garnering recognition following the 2005-06, 2007-08, and 2011-12 campaigns.
Prior to assuming the head coach position with the Marlins, she served as an assistant for Division I Indiana State in 2002-03, helping the Sycamores win the Missouri Valley Conference regular-season title, earning a bid in the Women’s NIT. She also served as the junior college recruiting coordinator while at Indiana State.
She also served as the assistant coach for two years at Division II Ashland University where she received her Masters of Education in sport education in 2002.
Dunmyer competed at Kenyon College where she helped her team to a 74-33 record in four seasons, capturing two NCAC championships and two berths in the NCAA tournament. She scored 1,555 points in her career, third all-time at Kenyon. She ranks among the top-five all-time at Kenyon in 22 statistical categories, including No. 1 in career assists and assists per game and No. 2 in career three-pointers. She is one of only 10 players named to the NCAC Women’s Basketball 20th Anniversary Team, honoring the conference’s best players from 1993-2003.
The 2000 NCAC Player of the Year and three-time all-conference honoree was inducted into the Kenyon College Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 2012.
She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Kenyon in 2000, graduating Cum Laude with highest honors.
