Additionally, under her leadership, her Cal Poly teams experienced 8 winning seasons out of 25 she coached.
[3] Faith Mimnaugh and her fraternal twin sister Joy were born prematurely in Hoopeston, Illinois, and raised in Elk Grove Village.
[4] She would attend her older brother Tim's basketball games at Elk Grove High School and wanted to play the sport herself.
In her senior year of high school (1981), she helped the Elk Grove Grenadiers win the Class AA state championship.
Upon graduating, she toured the world with a Christian-based sports group and was asked to play semi-professionally in Newcastle, New South Wales, where she also helped coach, from 1987 to 1989.