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Stephanie Findley Head Coach stephanie.findley@oc.edu

Coach, teacher, mother of two daughters and wife of a hardworking fireman - Stephanie Findley wears many hats as she leads the Lady Eagles in her 27th season as head women’s basketball coach at her alma mater.

While building a perennial contender in the NAIA and Sooner Athletic Conference, Findley has compiled a 512-314 record. She ranks No. 2 in career wins among NAIA Division I coaches and holds the state record for most wins by a women’s basketball coach at a four-year Oklahoma college. She set that record with her 500th win, recorded last season against Missouri Valley.

Findley has taken 13 teams to the NAIA Division I tournament, including nine of the last 12 years. The Lady Eagles have reached the “Sweet 16” five times and advanced to the national quarterfinals in 1986 - her first season as coach - as well as in 2003 and 2010.

Findley’s teams are noted for their up-tempo style of play that keeps constant pressure on the opposition. A strong teacher of the game, she has a knack for developing players and motivating them to reach their full potential. Her teams also are known for their academic achievements and community involvement. The 2008-09 team had the second-highest grade point average (3.762) among all NAIA women’s basketball squads, earning NAIA Scholar Team designation and the program’s ninth appearance on the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association honor roll.

Findley’s Lady Eagles earned the NAIA Champions of Character team award for women’s basketball in 2006-07 in recognition of their numerous community initiatives. Their recent work includes assisting Wings (a special-needs adult community near the OC campus) and the Capitol Hill Church of Christ Sharing Center. The team also participates in the American Cancer Society Relay for Life and runs each year in the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon in honor of Richard Cummins, who died in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and was the father of former OC player Courtney Cummins. Findley and her players spent a recent Thanksgiving Day distributing more than 250 meals in the Luther, Okla., area, and have worked in recent years with students at an Edmond elementary school, promoting fitness. The team also is a longtime partner with Habitat For Humanity and is involved in other mission and outreach efforts.

A playmaking guard for the Lady Eagles from 1979 to 1982, Findley devotes the same competitiveness, intelligence and intensity in the coaches’ box that characterized her playing days under former coach Max Dobson. Findley took the reins of the program with the 1985-86 season after serving as Dobson’s assistant for three seasons. In her first season, she guided the Lady Eagles to the NAIA District 9 title and the quarterfinals of the national tournament.

The 51-year-old Findley is a four-time SAC coach of the year honoree, having received the award in 1986, 1988, 1990 and 2000. In 1986, she was named coach of the year in NAIA District 9 and she was coach of the year in NAIA District 2 in 2000. She was inducted into the OC Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004.

Findley is a member of the NAIA Women’s Basketball Coaches Association. She served her third term as president of that organization in 2005-06 and now is on the WBCA’s All-America committee. She was the NAIA representative to the USA Basketball Women’s Collegiate Committee from 2000 to 2004 and now serves on the board of directors of the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame. She is involved in the selection process of potential honorees.

Findley, a 1982 OC graduate, is a native of Lexington, Okla., and lives in Edmond. She is an associate professor of physical education and the senior woman administrator for the OC athletic department. Findley holds a master’s degree in secondary education from the University of Central Oklahoma. She is married to Dean Findley, a 1982 OC graduate who is a major in the Oklahoma City Fire Department. They have two daughters - Jordan, a recent OC graduate and former player, and Jessica, a junior guard for the Lady Eagles.

 

Lisa Chenoweth Head Assistant Coach

Lisa Chenoweth joined the OC women’s basketball staff in June 2011. It’s Chenoweth’s first coaching job, but she’s a familiar face to those who’ve followed the OC program, having started two years at guard for the Lady Eagles. She helped OC reach the NAIA Division I quarterfinals as a senior in 2010.

The 23-year-old Chenoweth grew up in Tulsa and graduated from Union High School in 2006. She spent two years at The Master’s College in Santa Clarita, Calif., before transferring to OC.

Chenoweth graduated from OC with a bachelor of science degree in sports wellness and recreation management in 2010 and plans to start work on master’s degree in sports administration at East Central University this December.

Larry Truesdell Assistant Coach

Larry Truesdell began his second stint as an assistant coach with the Lady Eagles with the 2008-09 season. A coaching veteran of more than 30 years, Truesdell also was on the OC bench as an assistant from 1991 to 1997.

Prior to rejoining the OC program, the 57-year-old Truesdell spent four years at Edmond Santa Fe High School, where he worked as an assistant with the school’s girls basketball, volleyball and soccer programs. He also has had high school coaching stints at Oklahoma Christian School, Chisholm, Bishop McGuinness, Carl Albert and Westmoore.

The Henryetta native graduated from Northwestern Oklahoma State in 1978. Truesdell has worked the annual OC Cage Camps for more than 20 years. He and his wife Lisa have three grown children - Trey, Aubree and Chelsee - all of whom graduated from OC.

 

EAGLE EYE BLOG

Bobby Murcer Indoor Training Facility Walkthrough

Go on a walkthrough of the new Bobby Murcer Indoor Training Facility with head baseball coach Chuck White. Join us for OC’s first game of the season on Feb. 5 at 1 p.m. against St. Mary’s.

Kisorio, Mesta break OC 1,000-meter indoor record—Jan. 6, 2012

Hall of Fame Recap Video

Oklahoma Christian inducted its five newest Athletic Hall of Fame members on Friday, including a first for the university – a current student.

Men’s basketball star Charlie Smith, tennis coach Kris Miller, track standout Kathy (Nelson) Belcoff, softball ace Leah Carrell and current track and cross country All-American Silas Kisorio participated in the formal induction ceremony, held in OC’s Gaylord University Center.

Don Meyer, the NCAA leader in career men’s basketball coaching wins with 923, was the keynote speaker. The former coach at OC’s sister institution, Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn., praised the five inductees for developing their athletic gifts and encouraged the 250 people in attendance to do the same with the gifts they’d been blessed with by God. Watch a video recapping the night’s events.