Wendy Schuller: Small Sided Games

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Wendy Schuller was hired as the seventh head coach in Eastern Washington University women’s basketball history prior to the 2001-02 season. The start of the 2020-21 season begins Schuller’s 20^th season at the helm.
 
Eastern has advanced to the Big Sky Conference Tournament in 16 of Schuller’s 19 seasons as head coach, including the past nine campaigns. She also guided EWU to its first-ever bid to the WNIT following the 2009-10 season before taking the Eagles back to the prestigious invitational at the conclusion of the 2012-13 season and again in 2014-15. During the 2009-10 season, Schuller led the Eagles to its first-ever Big Sky regular-season title and she was named Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year. In 2016-17, the Eagles advanced to the second round of the Women’s Basketball Invitational for the first time in program history.

Under Schuller’s tutelage, players have earned a total of 52 All-Big Sky awards while Julie Piper and Brianne Ryan received Big Sky Player of the Year honors in 2010 and 2012, respectively. She also coached Julie Page to the program’s first-ever Big Sky Newcomer of the Year honor in 2004. In 2013, Eagle Hayley Hodgins become the first player to earn Big Sky Freshman of the Year accolades in twenty years before her sister, Delaney Hodgins, earned the honor in 2015.

Schuller has also established EWU Women’s Basketball as one of the nation’s top academic programs in her time in Cheney. The Eagles have earned a spot on the prestigious Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Academic Top 25 Honor Roll in 16 of Schuller’s 19 seasons in charge. Eastern has been among the top five academic teams in the country in eight of those 16 years, including the 2003-04 campaign when it led the nation with a 3.63 grade point average.