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I N D I A N A F E V E R CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER AND GENERAL MANAGER Kelly Krauskopf is in her 12th season as the Indiana Fever’s Chief Operating Officer and her eighth as the team’s General Manager. The highest-ranking female sports administrator in Indianapolis, she has been the Fever’s chief executive since the franchise was founded in 1999. Since the team was established, Krauskopf has been the guiding force of the Fever from building the team roster to building a fan base for Indiana’s WNBA franchise. In her role with the Fever, Krauskopf oversees all aspects of the team's operation. Since moving to Indianapolis and beginning the task of building a WNBA franchise, Krauskopf has engineered numerous player moves enabling the Fever to improve the team and complete its finest season in 2009. The Fever carried the best record in the WNBA throughout the regular season en route to the club’s first regular season conference title and its fifth consecutive playoff appearance. The 2009 campaign eclipsed the Fever’s previous best seasons with identical 21-13 records in 2005, 2006 and 2007 (and again in 2010 and 2011). Krauskopf has guided the franchise to eight playoff berths in its first 12 seasons – including a run of seven consecutive from 2005 to 2011. Indiana has become one of the WNBA’s most successful franchises, joining the Los Angeles Sparks as the only clubs in league history to post six 20-win seasons during a 7-year span. The Krauskopf-built Fever is the most stable the franchise has ever been, led by a solid core of returning starters that include All-Stars Tamika Catchings, Katie Douglas and Tammy Sutton-Brown. Annually one of the league’s most active GMs, Krauskopf’s key trades and free agent acquisitions have re-tooled the Fever roster. Besides a February 2008 deal to land hometown star Douglas, other moves in recent years resulted in the signing of current veterans Tangela Smith and Erin Phillips. Past moves included veteran KELLY KRAUSKOPF centers Natalie Williams and Yolanda Griffith, and former point guard Kelly Miller. A midseason move during the 2002 campaign brought veteran guard Coquese Washington to the Fever to ignite a late run to the franchise’s first appearance in the WNBA Playoffs. The cornerstone of the franchise was solidified by the draft selection of Catchings in the 2001 WNBA Draft. The third overall selection in the 2001 Draft and a 2004 and 2008 U.S. Olympian, Catchings was named Rookie of the Year in 2002 and Defensive Player of the Year in 2005, 2006, 2009 and 2010. She is a seven-time WNBA All-Star and an eighttime All-WNBA selection who has finished in the top five in MVP balloting eight times. Krauskopf also serves on USA Basketball’s Women’s Senior National Team Committee, helping to select from WNBA players to develop U.S. National Team rosters. Krauskopf has been a committee member since 2000, helping select the gold-medal winning roster for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and again for Beijing in 2008. Krauskopf has been in the forefront of the development of the WNBA. In September 1996, she was named the WNBA’s first Director of Basketball Operations. In that role, she was involved in all phases of the league’s start-up operation and initiatives. She also developed the league’s first set of playing rules, officiating policies, scheduling and other league standards, while working daily with WNBA team general managers and operations personnel. Before joining the WNBA, Krauskopf was the Managing Director of League Development for Media Sports Partnership, Limited in Dallas, Tex. From 1990 to 1994, she was Assistant Commissioner for the Southwest Conference. In addition to overseeing league marketing, she was the chief administrator for all eight women’s sports programs in the conference. She served from 1986 to 1990 as Texas A&M’s Assistant Athletic Director for Women’s Sports/Marketing. Krauskopf has served on committees for the Women’s Sports Foundation, the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association, Citizenship for Sports Alliance, and Texas A&M’s Lettermen’s Association Board of Directors. She currently serves on the Indiana Sports Corporation Presidents Council. Recently, she was part of the Local Organizing Committee that hosted the 2011 NCAA Women’s Final Four at Conseco Fieldhouse where she proudly watched her alma mater win its first national championship in women’s basketball. A 1983 graduate of Texas A&M University with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism, she was a three-year letterwinner in basketball for the Lady Aggies after transferring from Stephen F. Austin University where she played her freshman year under legendary coach Sue Gunter. 2011 PLAYOFFS MEDIA GUIDE 9
I N D I A N A F E V E R The fourth head coach in Indiana Fever history, Lin Dunn is regarded as one of the most successful women’s basketball coaches in history. Well-chronicled as one of the nation’s foremost pioneers of women’s basketball and one of its most prominent coaches and leaders, she has been a proven winner at both the college and pro levels, evidenced by three hall of fame inductions in 2010. Dunn became the winningest coach in Fever history earlier this season and has guided Indiana to 81 victories in four seasons as head coach (81-55, .596). She enters her fourth consecutive WNBA Playoffs campaign which is the longest current streak among WNBA coaches. Dunn’s coaching career preceded the passing of Title IX legislation in the 1970s. Her storied career includes trips to the NCAA Final Four and the WNBA Finals. A native of Dresden, Tenn., she was named to the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame on Feb. 19, 2010. She was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame on April 24, 2010. She was inducted into her alma mater’s athletics hall of fame at UT-Martin on Oct. 16, 2010. A longtime college coach and former general manager and head coach of the Seattle Storm, Dunn returned to her position as head coach when she was named to guide the Fever on Dec. 12, 2007. Then the owner of 525 wins as a college and professional coach, Dunn shed the assistant title she had worn the previous four seasons in Indiana in order to return to the head coaching ranks. After four seasons as head coach of the Fever, she now boasts 606 college and pro wins. She entered the 2009 playoffs as coach of the East’s top seeded team, eventually guiding the Fever to her first-ever appearance in a WNBA Finals championship series. Her 2011 club led the East again. A top candidate for the league’s top coaching award in 2011, Dunn was the runner-up in coach of the year balloting in 2009. After a summer with the WNBA’s best record from June through August, and a franchise-record 22 regular season wins, Dunn brought Indiana within minutes of the championship that has eluded her through 10 WNBA seasons since 2000. Dunn’s coaching resume includes four decades of coaching at the highest levels – the past 10 years in the professional ranks, between stints in Portland, Seattle and Indiana. Prior to her four seasons as a Fever assistant, Dunn served as head coach and general manager of the Seattle Storm, operating the city’s expansion franchise from 1999 to 2002. Dunn served in a scouting capacity for the Fever and former coach Nell Fortner during the 2003 season, and was added to the Fever staff in 2004 – allowing her to remain close to her INDIANA FEVER BRING IT HOME! 10 HEAD COACH LIN DUNN Tennessee roots. She completed four seasons as an assistant coach with the Fever, the final three which saw Indiana match its franchise record with identical 21-13 records. Before joining the Fever, Dunn built the Storm by drafting eventual league MVP Lauren Jackson and 2002 NCAA Player of the Year Sue Bird. In her final year with the Storm, 2002, she guided Seattle to a 17-15 record and the club’s first appearance in the WNBA Playoffs. Dunn was runner-up as the WNBA’s Coach of the Year. It was with the Storm, at Conseco Fieldhouse coincidentally, that she recorded her 500th coaching victory, when Seattle defeated the Fever, 74-71 in overtime, on June 4, 2001. Dunn’s first assignment in professional basketball came with a midseason phone call to take over the coaching reigns of the American Basketball League’s Portland Power during its inaugural campaign in 1996-97. She won her first game on the same night she was introduced as the head coach. A year later, Dunn led the Power on a worst-to-first run that culminated with a 27-17 record and a Western Conference championship. The remarkable turnaround earned Dunn the ABL Coach of the Year honor while guiding such stars as DeLisha Milton-Jones, Sonja Henning, Elaine Powell and former Fever center and two-time ABL MVP Natalie Williams. Portland was in first place at 9-4 when the ABL ceased operations two days before Christmas in 1998. Her tenure in Portland not only continued the coaching success she has achieved at every level of her career, but also enhanced her profile off the court. In the fledgling league that preceded the WNBA, Dunn’s charisma helped the Power to achieve the largest marketing revenue in the ABL and its second-highest attendance. She is perhaps best known as the architect of the Purdue University women’s basketball program, guiding the Boilermakers for nine seasons (1988-96) and collecting three Big Ten conference titles. She led the Old Gold-and- Black to seven NCAA Tournaments, four Sweet Sixteen appearances and a trip to the Final Four in 1994. In nine years at Purdue, she earned a 206-68 (.752) record and catapulted the school among the elite women’s basketball programs in the country. She still is the program’s winningest coach. Dunn coached and recruited three Kodak All- Americans, three Big Ten Players of the Year and two Big Ten Athletes of the Year. Future WNBA stars that emerged from her tenure at Purdue were Summer Erb, Ukari Figgs, Stacey Lovelace, Michelle VanGorp and former Fever star Stephanie White. Since her collegiate coaching career began at Austin Peay in 1970, she put together a remarkable 25-year record that includes a .635 career winning percentage at four schools (447- 257). She left three of those schools – Purdue, Miami and Austin Peay – as the winningest coach in program history. On the national level, she served on USA Basketball staffs for the 1992 Olympics and 1990 gold medal-winning World Championship and Goodwill Games teams. She was head coach of the 1995 bronze medal-winning USA Jones Cup team, and also served for eight years on the USA Basketball Team selection committee. Prior to arriving in West Lafayette, she coached at Miami, Fla., from 1979-87. She posted a 149-119 (.556) record through eight seasons and was the first coach to award a scholarship to a women’s basketball player. One of the last players she recruited, Frances Savage, was a Kodak All-American in 1992. She was named the Florida Coach of the Year in 1980-81. After building a program at Austin Peay for five years, Dunn spent one season at Mississippi before taking the Miami job. She led the Rebels to a 25-15 record and a 12th-place finish at the AIAW National Tournament. Her club ended three-time national champion Delta State’s 56-game winning streak and was named the Mississippi Coach of the Year. Dunn also has earned induction into the athletic halls of fame at both Miami and Austin Peay. She served as chair of the Kodak All- America Selection Committee from 1982-88 and was president of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association in 1984-85. Dunn earned a B.S. degree in health, physical education and English from Tennessee-Martin. A year later, she received an M.S. degree in physical education from Tennessee-Knoxville.
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