Anna Stammberger's Dal women's basketball contract renewed through 2020 season
'We have a great group of young student athletes and I look forward to what the future holds'
Dalhousie Tigers women's basketball head coach Anna Stammberger — a native of Kensington, P.E.I. — has had her contract extended through to the 2020-21 season, Dalhousie University Director of Varsity Athletics Tim Maloney announced Monday.
Stammberger, who has just completed her seventh season as head coach, has led the Tigers to six AUS championship appearances and was named the AUS coach of the year in the 2014-15 season.
"I'm very happy to be continuing my coaching career here at Dalhousie," said Stammberger in a written release.
"I'm pleased and excited with the direction that our women's basketball program is heading. We have a great group of young student athletes and I look forward to what the future holds."
All in the family
Two of those student athletes are also Stammbergers, according to Dalhousie's website: her daughter Tessa and her son Sven, who play basketball. Tessa was the women's basketball team MVP this season and an AUS first team all-star, while Sven is a starter on the men's basketball team and won this year's CIS award for fair play and sportsmanship.
"We are delighted to announce that Anna will continue to lead our women's basketball program," said Maloney.
"She is an integral part of our team and her leadership is incredibly valued on- and off-campus."
The women's team was sixth in the AUS at the end of the regular season. It lost in the quarter-final game of the AUS championship to Cape Breton 69-56.
Island Olympian
One of Stammberger's career highlights was competing for Canada at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
After six years as a teacher, coach and athletic director at Kensington Intermediate Senior High School in P.E.I., Stammberger took over the Dal women's basketball team in 2009, after the retirement of Carolyn Savoy.
Before that, Stammberger spent eight years as the head coach of Club BG Rentrop of Germany's first division league. She was also as assistant coach with the Tigers for two season after graduation.
A player for the Tigers herself from 1978 through 1983, Stammberger is a two-time AUS MVP and all-Canadian and was Dalhousie's female athlete of the year in 1983.
She also spent 12 years on Canada's national team and played 18 seasons of semi-professional basketball in Germany's first division league.
Stammberger will join Paul and Eric Villeneuve as 2016 inductees to the Dalhousie Sport Hall of Fame on May 3.
She was inducted into the P.E.I. Sports Hall of Fame in 2003.