Sherri Coale

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Name = Sherri Coale
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DateOfBirth = January 19, 1965
Birthplace = Headlton, OK
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Sport = Women's basketball
College = University of Oklahoma
Title = Head coach
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CoachYears = 1997-current
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Sherri Kay Coale is the current women's basketball coach for the University of Oklahoma Sooners.

Coale (born January 19, 1965), who grew up in Healdton, OK, married Dane Scott Coale (born 1964) on June 20, 1987. The couple has two children, son Colton (born 1992) and daughter, Chandler (born 1996). Coale has one brother, Jack. Their parents are Beverly Stash and Joe Buben.

Sherri completed her undergraduate studies at Oklahoma Christian College in Oklahoma City, OK, where she graduated summa cum laude in 1987. There she played on the schools Lady Eagles basketball team as a guard.

Sherri Coale accepted her current position in 1996. She went directly from a high school squad (having coached the previous 6 years at the local Norman High School) to an NCAA Division I team. She took over a team in turmoil at Oklahoma and brought it into the national spotlight in 2002 when her team went to the National Championship game.

Her teams continue to improve year after year. In 2005-2006 Coale's Sooners went 16-0 in Big 12 play and became the second Big 12 basketball team, men's or women's, to go undefeated in conference play. The University of Kansas men's basketball team went undefeated in Big 12 play in the 2001-2002 season. In 2008 the Sooners finished tied with two other teams for 3rd in the Big XII Conference and were knocked out by Missouri in the first round of the Big XII Tournament.