| Stacy Clinesmith |
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Spokane, Wash.
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| Position:
Assistant Director of Basketball Operations
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| Alma Mater:
UC-Santa Barbara, '00
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WNBA veteran and former UC Santa Barbara standout Stacy Clinesmith is in her first season as the assistant director of operations with the Oregon State women's
basketball team.
With the Beavers, Clinesmith assists with all day-to-day operations of the team, including travel, accommodations and meals. She also serves as film exchange coordinator, director of the team's managers and is responsible for the team's summer camps.
Clinesmith spent three seasons in the WNBA; two years with the Sacramento Monarchs before joining the Detroit Shock for the 2002 season. She was drafted in the second round of the 2000 WNBA Draft by Sacramento, and played two seasons in California's Capital city, seeing action in 42 games. She averaged 2.5 points, 1.2 rebounds and 1.9 assists during her tenure with the Monarchs.
Clinesmith played for Detroit in 2002 and saw action in 12 games, finishing the season with 2.3 points per game.
A native of Spokane, Wash., she was a standout guard at UC Santa Barbara from 1996-2000, helping the Gauchos to four straight NCAA appearances. She earned All-Big West First Team honors three times, starting with her sophomore year, and was named to the Big West All-Freshman Team after the 1996-97 season.
Clinesmith was also a clutch performer in the postseason, helping guide UC Santa
Barbara to Big West Tournament titles in each of her four seasons. She was named the
Big West Tournament Most Valuable Player in 2000 as the Gauchos swept through the tournament, winning all three games by at least seven points.
Clinesmith is one of 20 UC Santa Barbara players to finish with at least 1,000 career
points, totaling 1,565, which is sixth in program history.
Her 647 career assists stands second in UC Santa Barbara history, with her career
best 196 coming in 1999-2000 standing as the third-best single-season mark in school
history.
In 1996-97, her first year in Santa Barbara, she averaged 10.7 points per game en route to earning Big West All-Freshman Team honors.
She was named to the All-Big West First Team her sophomore, junior and senior seasons; In 1997-98, her sophomore year, she averaged a career-best 14.0 points per game, followed by 11.5 as a junior and 12.9 as a senior. Clinesmith's professional career has also come with the Springfield Spirit of the National Women's Basketball League (NWBL) and the Gigantes de Carolina in Puerto Rico.
The former guard has stayed active in basketball, most notably by serving as a color
commentator and sideline analyst for Gonzaga basketball with channel KHQ-TV in Spokane. Clinesmith comes to Oregon State as the owner and manager of Clinesmith Basketball.
Since 2005, she has developed, organized and instructed basketball camps in the Spokane area for girls aged 12-18, including the Coeur d'Alene and Colville Tribes.
She has organized tournaments at the tribes' facilities and teaches basketball and life skills with her athletes. She also served as the Director of the Sports Performance Extreme Enhancement Development (SPEED) program at Whitworth Physical Therapy in Spokane from 2005-07. While there, Clinesmith was the head coach of strength and conditioning for college and high school athletes in the area, many of whom came from Gonzaga University.
Her tenure at Whitworth came a year after serving as Director of Sports, USA, for
one year, 2004, where she coordinated all basketball operations in Spokane.
Clinesmith graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 2000 with a bachelor of arts in sociology. She has been a certified strength and conditioning coach since 2004. Additionally, she is a Read to Achieve spokesperson and a Wishing Star Foundation volunteer.
