Schuller is out as EWU women's hoops coach

CHENEY - After 20 years on the bench at Eastern Washington, women's basketball coach Wendy Schuller will not return for a 21st.

In a March 31 statement EWU Athletics Director Lynn Hickey announced that "Wendy Schuller will not return as head coach of the women's basketball program," following a 5-12 finish in Big Sky play, 6-17 overall in a COVID-19 complicated season.

Schuller had declined an initial request for an interview from the Cheney Free Press.

Schuller was hired as the seventh head coach in Eastern Washington women's basketball history prior to the 2001-02 season. She guided the Eagles to a 277-322 (.462) overall record over 20 seasons, including a 166-169 Big Sky Conference record.

Her 2010 team earned Eastern's lone Big Sky regular season championship. Her teams were regularly among the nation's academic leaders.

A national search for the next Eastern Washington women's basketball head coach will begin immediately.

Paul Delaney is a retired former Free Press Publishing reporter and can be reached at [email protected].