C. Vivian Stringer and her team smile and cheer after their win, 1993.

Center for Media Production Photographic Service Images Collection, University Archives.

Text by Denise Anderson, co-curator of We Are Hawkeyes: Celebrating 175 Years of Student Life at the University of Iowa.

Final Four Bound! C. Vivian stringer celebrated on March 27, 1993 with her team on their 72-56 win over second-ranked Tennessee, sending Iowa women to their first ever Final Four match in Atlanta to play Ohio State in the semifinals. 

Stringer became the first African American to coach a Big Ten women’s basketball team, and she has taken three teams to the Final Four (Cheyney, Iowa, and then Rutgers twice). 

Series of three black and white photos of C. Vivian Stringer and basketball players on her team being interviewed and filmed by the media after their win in 1993.

Center for Media Production Photographic Service Images Collection, University Archives.