Kathi Bennett ’86 will coach at Northern Illinois

Former women’s basketball player and UW-Green Bay grad Kathi Bennett, Class of 1986, is the new head coach at Northern Illinois University. For the past two seasons Bennett has been an assistant coach at UW-Madison, having previously been head coach at Indiana University (where current Phoenix coach Matt Bollant was assistant coach). Bennett is the daughter of former Phoenix men’s coach Dick Bennett and sister of Phoenix legend and University of Virginia head coach Tony Bennett ’92.