Badger women's basketball coach Lisa Stone has added Kathi Bennett as an assistant women's basketball coach in the Badger program.
Bennett, who is the daughter of former University of Wisconsin men's coach Dick Bennett and the sister of former UW assistant coach Tony Bennett, now at Washington State, has many coaching ties to the state and to the Big Ten.
Bennett coached for seven seasons at UW-Oshkosh included a 94-17 WIAC coaching record, five WIAC titles, 17 All-WIAC first team selections, and two NCAA Division III All-America selections. In 1996, Bennett was recognized as the Coach of the Year in the NCAA Division III by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA).
She moved to NCAA Division I first taking the head job at the University of Evansville, and later at Indiana University where her team won the Big Ten Tournament title in 2002.
