[1] She was previously head coach of the WNBA Connecticut Sun in the 2023 and 2024 seasons and Vanderbilt Commodores women's basketball team from 2016 to 2021.

[3] As an intercollegiate athlete, she was named the winner of the Wade Trophy in 1999, which recognizes the top female basketball player in the nation.

She participated in the WBCA High School All-America Game in 1995, scoring seventeen points, and earning MVP honors.

White began her five-year WNBA career with the Charlotte Sting in 1999 under her married name, Stephanie White-McCarty.

She was acquired a year later in an expansion draft by the Indiana Fever to lead the team's inaugural season roster.

White competed with USA Basketball as a member of the 1997 Jones Cup Team that won the silver medal in Taipei.

[10] A 1999 communications major graduate,[9] White sat out the 2002 season with an injury and worked as a television color commentator and sideline reporter during Fever Games.

[14] In her first season as head coach, Indiana went 20–14 overall and made their second WNBA Finals appearance, losing the best-of-five series to Minnesota.

[citation needed] On May 23, 2016, White accepted the head coaching job for the Vanderbilt Commodores women's basketball team.

[15][better source needed] Her fifth season at Vanderbilt was shortened in January 2021, due to COVID-19 concerns, injuries, and a depleted roster.