MORGANTOWN — If nothing else, West Virginia’s pressure man-to-man defense made a good first impression. In her first regular season game as the Mountaineers’ head coach, Dawn […]
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WVU, Dawn Plitzuweit roll in debut exhibition against Fairmont State
MORGANTOWN — Dawn Plitzuweit went to make a left turn into the WVU Coliseum on Sunday and sort of got a welcome-to-Morgantown moment. “I came two hours […]
Dawn Plitzuweit’s style is to have WVU play fast, be versatile
MORGANTOWN — The uniqueness to the style of play Dawn Plitzuweit wants to bring to the WVU women’s basketball team, she admits, is actually bits and pieces […]
Mon schools: Coaching the coaches is a good idea
WVU women’s basketball coach Dawn Plitzuweit was center court for a time during Tuesday night’s meeting of the Monongalia County Board of Education. Her star-turn came courtesy […]
Plitzuweit wastes no time in making connections with West Virginia and her team
MORGANTOWN — Dawn Plitzuweit knows she wasn’t brought to West Virginia to tear down foundations and rebuild. She knows she wasn’t brought to Morgantown to put WVU […]
Women belong in sports — and in coaching positions
Of the 16 teams under the West Virginia University athletics umbrella, there were only two female head coaches: Nikki Izzo-Brown, who heads the women’s soccer team, and […]
Dawn Plitzuweit grabs the reins of WVU’s women’s hoops program, ready to make a connection with players, community
MORGANTOWN — It started with names on a sheet of paper found mainly in WVU athletic director Shane Lyons’ pocket. With a name like Dawn Plitzuweit — […]
Dawn Plitzuweit fills out WVU coaching staff with her South Dakota assistants
MORGANTOWN — Prior to her introduction in becoming West Virginia’s sixth women’s basketball coach at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Dawn Plitzuweit wasted little time in filling out her […]
West Virginia tabs South Dakota’s Dawn Plitzuweit as its next women’s hoops coach
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia’s hire for its sixth women’s basketball coach in the program’s history comes with the experience of already beating Baylor. The school announced Thursday […]
