Theresa Grentz College coach

Theresa Shank Grentz (born March 24, 1952), from Glenolden, Pennsylvania, is the former head coach of the women's basketball program at the University of Illinois, Rutgers University and St. Josephs. She is a member of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. Her career record is 671-309 and she served as a head coach for 32 years, with the last 13 as the Illinois head coach. She was the Olympic head coach in 1992; the team captured the Bronze medal in Barcelona. She is 10th all time in women's NCAA basketball coaching victories and only had two losing seasons in her 32 years of coaching basketball. Grentz was an honor initiate into the University of Illinois Theta chapter of Sigma Kappa Sorority.