Theresa Grentz
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| Born | March 24, 1952 Spangler, Pennsylvania, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1971–1974 | Immaculata | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1974–1976 | Saint Joseph's | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1976–1995 | Rutgers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1995–2007 | Illinois | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Lafayette (assistant) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2017 | Lafayette | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Overall | 681–362 (.653) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Theresa Marie Shank Grentz (born March 24, 1952) is an American college basketball coach. Her coaching career spanned five decades, with over 680 career wins, multiple national and conference coaching awards, and a national championship. She is a member of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Grentz grew up in Glenolden, Pennsylvania and played college basketball at Immaculata College, where she earned three All-American honors and was part of three consecutive AIAW national championship teams from 1972 to 1974. After graduating from college, Grentz was head coach at a recently created women's basketball program at Saint Joseph's College from 1974 to 1976.
From 1976 to 1995, Grentz was head women's basketball coach at Rutgers University–New Brunswick during a time when the Rutgers program was transitioning from the AIAW to NCAA levels. Grentz led Rutgers to the final AIAW national championship in 1982, after which Rutgers moved to the NCAA and joined the Atlantic 10 Conference in 1983. Rutgers won eight Atlantic 10 regular season and four Atlantic 10 tournament championships and appeared in nine consecutive NCAA Tournaments, and Grentz earned four Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year honors and three national honors. After Rutgers, Grentz was head coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1995 to 2007, taking Illinois to 10 postseason appearances and the 1997 Big Ten Conference regular season title. After a seven-year hiatus from coaching, Grentz returned to college basketball at Lafayette College, first as an assistant coach in 2014–15 then head coach from 2015 to 2017.
Outside of college basketball, Grentz also was head coach for the United States women's national basketball team for several international competitions from 1985 to 1992, including the 1992 Olympic bronze team.