After nine seasons main the Nevada women’s basketball workforce, Wolf Pack coach Amanda Levens was fired Monday.
Levens completed her Nevada profession with an general report of 126-153 with a 69-92 mark in Mountain West video games. Levens’ 126 victories are a college report throughout the workforce’s recorded historical past, which started in 1981.
A one-time assistant coach at Nevada beneath Kim Gervasoni from 2003-08, Levens returned to Reno to take over the program in 2017 following a stint as Arizona State’s affiliate head coach. Levens had one 12 months remaining on her contract with a assured wage of $260,000, which Nevada will owe in month-to-month installments by way of April 30, 2027. That consists of offset pay if Levens finds different employment throughout that interval.
“We are grateful for Amanda’s leadership of the Wolf Pack women’s basketball program and the meaningful impact she, her staff and student-athletes have had throughout Northern Nevada,” Nevada athletic director Stephanie Rempe stated in a information launch. “Amanda and her team always represented the university in a first-class manner, elevating our presence in the community through consistent engagement with local organizations and a genuine commitment to service. We appreciate her contributions to our university and wish her well in her next chapter.”
Levens’ Wolf Pack tenure began sturdy as seventh-seeded Nevada reached its first Mountain West Tournament championship sport in Levens’ debut 12 months. That included additional time wins over San Diego State in the first spherical and UNLV in the quarterfinal earlier than an upset of Wyoming in the semifinal. In the championship, Nevada led Boise State for a lot of the sport and held an eight-point fourth-quarter lead earlier than falling 62-60on a buzzer-beating layup from A’Shanti Coleman.
Nevada wouldn’t get previous the MW Tournament quarterfinal in Levens’ last eight seasons, shedding on this 12 months’s first spherical to Fresno State on Saturday to complete the season 10-21 general and 6-14 in convention (Tenth place, the worst of Levens’ tenure). That capped the Wolf Pack’s third 20-loss marketing campaign in the final 4 seasons, with the Wolf Pack final posting a successful report in 2021-22 when it went 20-13. Over the final 4 seasons, Nevada went 47-79.
In Levens’ nine seasons, the Wolf Pack had a successful report thrice with postseason berths in 2018 and 2022 when the workforce performed in the WBI. It reached the WBI semifinal in 2018 and completed in fourth place out of eight groups in 2022. Her finest MW end got here in 2022 when Nevada was a part of a three-way tie for third place. The Wolf Pack additionally had a fourth-place end, fifth-place end, three seventh-places finishes and one eighth-, ninth- and Tenth-place end in the MW.
An All-American participant at Arizona State the place she was inducted into the college’s Hall of Fame, Levens was the head coach at SIU Edwardsville the place she went 42-76 over 4 seasons, the first 4 in that college’s historical past at the Division I degree. Levens has a profession head-coaching report of 168-228 in 13 seasons at the D-I degree.
Nevada will now seek for Levens’ alternative in what’s one among the campus’ marquee sports activities. The Wolf Pack has had nine head coaches throughout its Division I period, none of whom have completed their profession with a successful report or gained a convention title. Levens’ profession successful proportion of 45.2 p.c is the finest mark of any Nevada women’s basketball coach. The Wolf Pack had only one senior on this 12 months’s roster who’s out of eligibility in Chloe Williams.
The Wolf Pack stated a nationwide seek for the subsequent Wolf Pack head coach will start instantly.