The University of South Dakota has named its new Women’s Basketball Coach. The Coyotes new leader has won a national title in Division Two, and has major college coaching experience.
Dawn Plitzuweit (PLITTS-u-wite) comes to Vermillion from Northern Kentucky University. She took over the Norse in their first year as a Division One program. Before that, she was an assistant at the Universities of Michigan and Wisconsin, and also an assistant coach at Wisconsin-Green Bay.
Plitzuweit grew up in West Bend, Wisconsin, and is a member of the Michigan Tech University Hall of Fame—she left that school with several records, and was named the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Player of the Year twice. Her college team had 99 wins and 22 losses over four seasons, and made four consecutive trips to the Division Two National Tournament. Plitzuweit won a national championship in 2006 with Grand Valley State University in Michigan. She succeeds Amy Williams, who left U-S-D earlier in the month to become head coach at the University of Nebraska.
Plitzuweit’s introduction to Vermillion will come at a press conference Monday morning.