Stan Swank (2013) - Edinboro Athletics Hall of Fame

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Stan Swank

Class
Induction

2013
Sport(s)

Women's Basketball

Stan Swank wrapped up his 26^th season as Edinboro's women's basketball coach this year. He ranks as the winningest coach in women's basketball history, showing a 466-268 record, with 20 winning seasons in 26 years. Including four years as the head coach at Parkland Junior College, he has 570 career wins. Swank entered the 2012-13 campaign ranked 14^th among active Division II coaches in wins, along with 15^th in winning percentage (.630). He ranks as the all-time PSAC leader in wins. All told, Swank has led the Fighting Scots to eighteen PSAC Tournaments, three PSAC championships (1990, 2011, 2012) and nine NCAA Tournament appearances. That includes Edinboro's lone trip to the Elite Eight, that coming in 1997 when the Fighting Scots defeated High Point, 70-68, to win the East Regional title. They would fall to North
Dakota in the quarterfinals. A year ago the Fighting Scots also reached the Atlantic Regional final before falling to eventual national champion Shaw. Swank's teams have posted nine 20-win seasons, including each of the last three years. In fact, his teams have enjoyed particular success in the last three seasons, showing an incredible 78-12 record, with PSAC championships in 2011 and '12, plus three straight trips to the Atlantic Regional. Swank guided the 2011-12 team to a 30-2 finish, a school-record for wins in a season, with the Fighting Scots climbing as high as second in the national rankings before ending the year ninth. The 1989-90 squad finished with a 27-3 ledger, the second-highest win total, while his 2010-11 edition was 26-4. Swank was named the 2012 WBCA Division II Atlantic Region Coach of the Year and was also the Division II Bulletin Atlantic Region Coach of the Year. He has been recognized as the PSAC Coach of the Year six times – 1989, 1990, 1992, 1997, 2011 and 2012. He has also been honored as Edinboro's Coach of the Year in four occasions. Swank has coached nine WBCA All-Americans and 54 All-PSAC performers.

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