Jen Hoover
American basketball player and coach
Jennifer Hoover (née Mitchell; born October 12, 1969) is currently an assistant coach with the Virginia Tech women's basketball team.
Career
She was previously an assistant coach with the University of Kentucky women's basketball team since her appointment on July 11, 2022.
Before coaching at Kentucky, she was the head coach at Wake Forest University for ten seasons prior to her dismissal two months earlier on May 11. She was succeeded by Megan Gebbia fifteen days later on May 26.
She played her collegiate career at Wake Forest and is the school's leading scorer and rebounder.
Wake Forest statistics
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Awards and honors
In 2007, Hoover was named to the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame.
In 2012, after leading High Point to a 20–13 record, Hoover was named the Maggie Dixon Division I Rookie Coach of the Year Award, awarded to a coach who achieves great success in their first year as a Division I head coach.
On March 4, 2021, Hoover became the winningest coach in Wake Forest history after beating North Carolina in the 2021 ACC women's basketball tournament. The win gave Hoover 126 total wins as a coach at her alma mater.
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