Shirley Egner
Head Women's Basketball Coach/Senior Woman Administrator
Phone: 715-346-3397
Email:
segner@uwsp.edu
One of the winningest coaches in Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference history, Shirley Egner begins her 21st season as head coach of the Pointers in 2009-10.
Egner has compiled a 358-168 overall record in her 20 seasons, ranking second on the all-time WIAC wins list. The Pointers have won at least 18 games each of the past nine seasons and own a league-best .810 winning percentage during that time. Egner’s all-time coaching record, including high school, is 499-218.
Egner is a three time WIAC Coach of the Year honoree, earning the award in 2003-04, 2007-08, and last season in 2008-09.
Coach Egner led the Pointers to the 2001-02 NCAA Division III championship with a 67-65 win over St. Lawrence (N.Y.). She then took the Pointers back to the final four again two years later in 2003-04, where they placed fourth.
The Pointers have achieved their best success in recent seasons with a 209-49 record over the past nine seasons, which is the best winning percentage of any league team over that span. UW-Stevens Point's best record was 30-3 during its championship season in 2001-02, becoming just the eighth team in Division III history to win 30 games in a season. Along the way to the championship, Egner also guided the Pointers to a 66-60 victory over four-time defending Division III champion Washington (Mo.), snapping the Bears’ 70-game home winning streak.
UW-Stevens Point won back-to-back WIAC titles in 2003-04 and 2004-05. In 2003-04, the Pointers also captured their first-ever WIAC tournament crown, as Egner was named the league’s Coach of the Year.
In 2007-08, the Pointers finished third in the WIAC regular season standings, but became the first non-No. 1 seed ever to win the WIAC tournament crown with wins at Whitewater and at Eau Claire, as Egner was again named Coach of the Year. Pointers are a league-best 110-34 in the WIAC over the past nine seasons.
Egner came to UW-Stevens Point from Nicholls State University in Thibodeaux, La., where she served as a graduate assistant.
A native of McFarland, Wis. and a 1980 graduate of UW-La Crosse, she began her coaching career as head girls’ basketball coach at Shiocton (Wis.) High School. After a one-year stint as the girls’ freshman coach at Monona Grove (Wis.) High School, she became head girls’ coach at Waunakee (Wis.) High School, where she led the Warriors to a five-year record of 115-40, including conference titles in 1985, 1986 and 1987 and state tournament appearances in 1986 and 1987.
Following the 1986-87 season, she was named the WBCA District Five Coach of the Year and was chosen to coach the Class B South Team in the WBCA All-Star Game in Madison.
Egner, who was the chair of the NCAA Division III women’s basketball committee from 2006-08 overseeing the national selection committee, is the senior women's administrator and also a lecturer in the Department of Health, Exercise Science and Athletics at UW-Stevens Point.
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