Sue Semrau
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| Born | March 9, 1962 Seattle, Washington, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | UC San Diego | |||||||||||||||||
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1987–1991 | Occidental College | |||||||||||||||||
| 1991–1994 | Northern Illinois (asst.) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1994–1997 | Wisconsin (asst.) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1997–2020 | Florida State | |||||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | Florida State | |||||||||||||||||
| Head coaching record | ||||||||||||||||||
| Overall | 492–271 (.645) includes 22 wins vacated by NCAA in 2006–07 and 2007–08 | |||||||||||||||||
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Susan Paige Semrau (born March 9, 1962) is the former head women's basketball coach at Florida State University. From 1997 through 2022, Semrau compiled a 468-252 career record at FSU. She retired after her 24th season at FSU. During the 2020–21 season she took a leave of absence to care for her mother. She guided the Seminoles to appearances in the NCAA tournament 15 total times, including 14 out of the past 15 seasons including three Elite Eights. Until her final season, Semrau at FSU never lost a 1st Round NCAA tournament game, going 15-0. In the 2019–20 season, she hit the 200 ACC wins milestone as a head coach.
Prior to being at Florida State, she was the head coach of Division III's Occidental College for four seasons before spending six seasons as an assistant coach at Northern Illinois University (1991–92 and 1993–94) and the University of Wisconsin (1994–95 and 1996–97).
Semrau grew up in the state of Washington, and attended Shorecrest High School in Seattle. At first, she stayed in Washington for college, playing for Puget Sound for two years before transferring to UC-San Diego for her final two seasons.