MORGANTOWN -- If nothing else, West Virginia’s pressure man-to-man defense made a good first impression. In her first regular season game as the Mountaineers’ head coach, Dawn Plitzuweit saw her players force 41 turnovers on Thursday, as WVU ran past USC Upstate 81-31 inside the ...
MORGANTOWN -- Dawn Plitzuweit went to make a left turn into the WVU Coliseum on Sunday and sort of got a welcome-to-Morgantown moment. “I came two hours before the game today, and I was in a traffic jam,” Plitzuweit said after guiding the WVU women’s basketball team to an 83-49 ...
MORGANTOWN -- The uniqueness to the style of play Dawn Plitzuweit wants to bring to the WVU women’s basketball team, she admits, is actually bits and pieces of other’s philosophies that she hopes to mesh together. Such is the way of any coach, in any sport, in that styles are copied ...
MORGANTOWN -- Dawn Plitzuweit knows she wasn’t brought to West Virginia to tear down foundations and rebuild. She knows she wasn’t brought to Morgantown to put WVU women’s basketball on the map. “I really feel blessed for this opportunity,” she says. “What I mean by that is ...
MORGANTOWN -- It started with names on a sheet of paper found mainly in WVU athletic director Shane Lyons’ pocket. With a name like Dawn Plitzuweit — pronounced PLITTS-zoo-white — it sort of stands out on any list. “I will admit, it took me a long time to learn how to say her ...
MORGANTOWN -- Prior to her introduction in becoming West Virginia’s sixth women’s basketball coach at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Dawn Plitzuweit wasted little time in filling out her coaching staff. Plitzuweit named Jason Jeschke as associate head coach, and Aaron Horn and Ariel Braker as ...
