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Connecticut Sun's Stephanie White named WNBA's top head coach

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Stephanie White was honoured as the WNBA's coach of the year on Sunday after guiding the Connecticut Sun to a 27-win season and a No.

3 seed in the playoffs. White, the former Indiana Fever and Vanderbilt coach, took over a team that made it to last year's Finals before coach Curt Miller left for Los Angeles and star player Jonquel Jones, a former MVP, was traded to New York and point guard Jasmine Thomas left to join her former coach out west.

The team also had to deal with a season-ending injury to key player Brionna Jones a month into the season. White received 36 votes from a national panel of 60 sportswriters and broadcasters.

Latricia Trammell of the Dallas Wings finished in second place with 11 votes, and Sandy Brondello of the New York Liberty was third with six votes.

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