Badger women’s basketball head coach Lisa Stone named Kathi Bennett as an assistant women’s basketball coach in the Badger program. She will begin her appointment May 1.
Bennett, 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. She battled against Stone (who was then at UW-Eau Claire) as the head women’s coach at UW-Oshkosh from 1989-96 where she amassed a 155-32 career record. Her teams made six NCAA appearances including two Division III Final Four appearances that resulted in the 1996 national championship (31-0 record) and runner-up championship (28-3 record) finish in 1995.