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Cindy Russo

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Sport(s)
  
Women's basketball

1975–1977
  
Old Dominion (asst.)

1978–1980
  
1972–1975
  
Old Dominion

1977–1978
  
1980–2015
  
FIU

Born
  
September 7, 1952 (age 64)Portsmouth, Virginia (
1952-09-07
)

Cindy Russo (born September 7, 1952) served as the women's basketball head coach at Florida International and Lamar. Retiring in January 2015, her career spanned 39 years with 38 of those years as a head coach. She had several accomplishments over her career. She guided the FIU Panthers to 20 consecutive winning seasons. Her teams also achieved 20 win seasons 18 times. Her teams participated in six NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournaments, seven WNIT tournaments, and two NCAA Division II Tournaments.

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Russo was born in Portsmouth, Virginia and graduated from Old Dominion University in 1975.

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Head coaching record

* 2003–04 wins vacated by the NCAA; FIU originally finished 4th in the East Division.
** Partial season. Coach Russo resigned effective immediately on January 22, 2015. Interim head coach completed the season. Inge Nissen became interim head coach and went 0–13 (all in C-USA), for the team to finish 3–26 (0–18 C-USA) and in 14th place.

References

Cindy Russo Wikipedia


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