Stephanie Fisher | Assistant Coach
Aquinas women's basketball head coach Brian Morris announced that Stephanie Fisher would remain on the Aquinas coaching staff as an assistant coach. She previously served as a graduate assistant for Aquinas as well as the head coach of the Lake Superior State University junior varsity team.
Fisher's duties this year at AQ will include player development for the team's guards, offensive concepts, day-to-day operations and recruiting in the West Michigan area.
In her previous role at Aquinas, Fisher was responsible for recruiting varsity and junior varsity players as well as organizing, managing and scheduling a 20-game JV season. She also assisted with the varsity programs by organizing weekly workouts, academic meetings, travel needs, food and hotel reservations and social media for the team. Fisher was also in charge of the strength and conditioning program.
Fisher was a part of Aquinas's 2017-18 season in which the team qualified for the NAIA National Tournament and finished as the runner-up in both the WHAC regular season standings and conference championship. AQ won 11 consecutive games and went 17-4 over its final 21 games to finish with a record of 25-9 overall and as the #21 ranked team in the country.
"I am extremely excited to have Stephanie continue to stay on our staff after serving two years as our grad assistant," commented Morris. "Stephanie has an amazing work ethic and creative offensive mindset, which will help us on the offensive side of the ball. I couldn't be more excited to have the opportunity to work with a young coach that has a tremendous competitive mindset!"
During her time at Lake Superior State, Fisher had many of the same roles she performed at Aquinas, while she also broke down game film and found areas of improvement for the team to develop and improve the skills of players over time.
"I am extremely blessed to have the opportunity to continue to be a part of the Aquinas women's basketball program," Fisher explained. "The last two years I have learned so much and am looking forward to the challenge of my new role and continuing to grow and learn from Coach 'B' [Morris] each and every day."
Fisher earned a Master's Degree in Management with a concentration in Leadership in 2019 from Aquinas after she earned a Bachelor's Degree in Sport and Recreation Management in 2015 from Lake Superior State.