THE OFFICIAL ATHLETICS SITE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-WHITEWATER

Coenen-Pearson earned four letters as a forward on the basketball court for the Warhawks.  In 1981, in her first year, she helped UW-W win the conference championship.  In 1983 she earned first team all-conference honors and, as a senior in 1984, the American Women’s Sports Federation named her Honorable Mention All-American.   Coenen is fourteenth in career scoring (805 points) in the school's record book.   She is also tied for third in games played (109), fourth in rebounds (587), and sixteenth in rebounding average (5.4 per game).  While at UW-W Coenen-Pearson served as a student representative to the Intercollegiate Athletic Committee, then was chosen to be a student assistant to the athletic directors and women's basketball coach.  A native of Neenah, Coenen-Pearson graduated from UW-Whitewater in 1986 with a degree in education.  She is a teacher and girls' basketball coach in the Kimberly (WI) school district.  Coenen directed Kimberly to back-to-back 26-1 records in 1997 and 1998, finishing second in the WIAA tournament the first year and winning the state title in her second season.   She is the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association chairperson for the annual high school all-star game, and worked as a color commentator on the statewide television broadcasts of the 1999 WIAA tournament.  Coenen-Pearson is a resident of Appleton.