Stringer and her late husband, William D. Stringer, whom she met as a student at Slippery Rock, have three children: David, Janine (Nina), and Justin. She has 5 siblings, Madalin Williams, Richelle Davis, Timothy Stoner, Jack Stoner, and Verna Fraizer.

Nov 25, 1998 · Stringer was devastated when her husband, Bill, died of a heart attack on Thanksgiving Day in 1992. Two decades earlier, her father, Charles, had died during the Thanksgiving holiday.

Apr 30, 2022 · She met her husband, Bill Stringer, there and the couple married in 1971, the same year Vivian got the head-coaching job at Cheyney. In 1981, their daughter, Nina, was diagnosed with spinal...

Sep 11, 2009 · She lost her beloved husband, Bill, to a heart attack at age 47 back on Thanksgiving Day in 1992. Do you believe in true love?

Sep 11, 2009 · When C. Vivian Stringer is inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Friday night, the memory of her late husband, Bill Stringer, will guide her like it has for the past 17...

Apr 2, 2008 · Her coal-miner father lost both of his legs when Stringer was a child, her husband died suddenly of a heart attack in 1991, her daughter, Nina, was misdiagnosed with a case of spinal meningitis that left her unable to walk and talk, …

Jan 15, 2025 · Stringer has overcome many challenges in her life; the loss of her beloved father at the tender age of 19; in 1982, her only daughter being stricken with spinal meningitis just prior to her Cheyney team’s appearance in the very first Final Four; the sudden death of her beloved husband, Bill, to a heart attack on Thanksgiving Day 1992 and a ...

In 1971, she moved with her husband Bill Stringer to Cheyney State University where she volunteered as a basketball coach while he taught exercise physiology.

Apr 30, 2022 · Her crowning achievement was leading Iowa to the NCAA Final Four in 1993, but it also came during one of the saddest and most difficult stretches in Stringer’s life with her husband, Bill Stringer, having died barely four months …

She met her late husband William D Stringer in college. They had three children. Stringer was the first men’s or women’s basketball coach to guide three different programs to the Final Four, bringing national relevancy to each school.