(Minneapolis, MN) — An official introduction today for new Golden Gopher women’s basketball coach Dawn Plitzuweit.
The 50-year old coach, who takes over for Lindsay Whalen, comes to Minnesota after a year at West Virginia. Plitzuweit says, “First building block for us is going to be toughness and in order for us to be good defensively, you need to finish plays.
Whether that means tip a pass and then go get on the floor and finish it, whether it means save it out of bounds, whether it means finish with a rebound, whatever it looks like, we have to be really good at finishing plays.”
Plitzuweit has previous coaching experience at the University of South Dakota and Northern Kentucky. She is a Wisconsin native who says returning to the Upper Midwest is great for her and her family.