Kathi Bennett
{{Short description|American basketball player and coach}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2024}}{{BLP sources|date=April 2018}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Kathi Bennett
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| current_title = Assistant coach
| current_team = Edgewood
| current_conference = NACC
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| birth_place = Clintonville, Wisconsin
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| alma_mater = Green Bay
| coach_years1 = 1988–1989
| coach_team1 = Marycrest
| coach_years2 = 1989–1996
| coach_team2 = Wisconsin–Oshkosh
| coach_years3 = 1996–2000
| coach_team3 = Evansville
| coach_years4 = 2000–2005
| coach_team4 = Indiana
| coach_years5 = 2008–2010
| coach_team5 = Wisconsin (assistant)
| coach_years6 = 2010–2015
| coach_team6 = Northern Illinois
| coach_years7 = 2018–present
| coach_team7 = Edgewood (assistant)
| overall_record = {{Winning percentage|353|270|record=y}}
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Kathi Bennett (born January 31, 1963) is an American women's basketball coach. She is the former head coach of the Northern Illinois Huskies women's basketball team, a position she held from 2010 to 2015.{{Cite web |url=http://www.niu.edu/northerntoday/2010/may24/bennett.shtml |title=Kathi Bennett to lead women's basketball - NIU - Northern Today |access-date=2012-03-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218062448/http://niu.edu/northerntoday/2010/may24/bennett.shtml |archive-date=2010-12-18 |url-status=dead }}
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{{MedalSport | Women's Basketball}}
{{MedalSport|Assistant Coach for {{USA}} }} {{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}} {{MedalSilver|2003 Santo Domingo | Team Competition}}
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Biography
Bennett is the daughter of former University of Wisconsin–Green Bay Phoenix, Wisconsin Badgers and Washington State Cougars head coach Dick Bennett. Her brother is former NBA player and former Virginia Cavaliers head coach Tony Bennett.{{Cite web |url=http://www.uwbadgers.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/020210aac.html |title=Meet the Badger Coaches: Kathi Bennett - UWBadgers.com - the Official Web Site of the Wisconsin Badgers Athletics |access-date=2010-10-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622030346/http://www.uwbadgers.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/020210aac.html |archive-date=2011-06-22 |url-status=dead }} She graduated from Stevens Point Area Senior High School in Stevens Point, Wisconsin and attended the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point and the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, where she played on the women's basketball teams at both schools.
Coaching career
Bennett served as a head coach at Marycrest College during the 1988–89 season before taking the same position at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh. During her time there she led the team to the 1996 National Championship and was named Coach of the Year that season.{{cite web |url=http://www.niuhuskies.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/051810aag.html |title=Kathi Bennett Selected to Lead Northern Illinois Basketball Program - NORTHERN ILLINOIS OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE |website=www.niuhuskies.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100521043546/http://www.niuhuskies.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/051810aag.html |archive-date=2010-05-21}} From there she was the head coach with the Evansville Purple Aces and the Indiana Hoosiers. After spending a period of time away from coaching, she became an assistant coach with the Wisconsin Badgers before being hired to the head coaching position with the NIU Huskies.
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